Tim, do you have a CLA in place with the ASF?
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:03:14 -0500, Tim Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've created bug 31355 and attached a zip file containing my source code, > using [codec] as the base package. Apologies in advance if I'm not following > the right code styles. > > As others have commented, there are several CSV "specs" out on the web. This > is the one I used when writing this: > http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm#FileFormat > > The actual algorithm gets fairly complex and ugly inside the parse method > (lots of special cases depending on state); I haven't been able to tease out > a more object-oriented approach yet but I gotta believe there's one out > there. If someone sees a better way of accomplishing this, I will gladly use > it. > > Tim > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 11:36 AM > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > Subject: Re: CSV parser & printer > > > > Unless anyone wants to -1 it, submit your code in as the package > > org.apache.commons.io.csv to Bugzilla as a zip or something (including > > unit tests) and I'll go ahead and review it there. > > > > Mainly I'll be looking to make it support what my ones do too, so I > > can go ahead and drop them. Or if I feel strongly about the simplicty > > of mine or something, I'll then try to convince you to start with > > mine. > > > > Hen > > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:28:26 -0500, Tim Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I probably should have said up front that I had written this expressly > > > because the ostermiller implementation is inaccessible to me due to the > > GPL > > > license. > > > > > > > http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-csv/ > > > > > > I didn't run across that in my search; I'll have to check it out more in > > > depth. One thing I like off the top is being able to read field-by- > > field; > > > my implementation currently grabs a line at a time, but I can see on a > > very > > > wide file that this would be necessary. > > > > > > Regardless, is there any interest in placing this in commons? I know my > > > company prefers to minimize the number of sources for tools, and having > > this > > > in commons would have been helpful for me. If there's interest I'll > > clean up > > > the code (add apache banner, format according to accepted styles, that > > sort > > > of thing) and send it out for review and voting. > > > > > > > IO is the first place I'd look for csv handling (though possibly only > > > > because I implement them as Reader/Writer style classes). Others have > > > > suggested Codec in the past. > > > > > > Yeah, there's no clear winner between the two. They're not exactly > > > reader/writers which is why I named them parser & printer -- just so > > nobody > > > expected them to be subclasses of java.io.Reader & java.io.Writer. > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:51 PM > > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; Dion Gillard > > > > Subject: Re: CSV parser & printer > > > > > > > > http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-csv/ > > > > > > > > is available as well if it has any useful ideas that could be merged > > in. > > > > > > > > IO is the first place I'd look for csv handling (though possibly only > > > > because I implement them as Reader/Writer style classes). Others have > > > > suggested Codec in the past. > > > > > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:43:11 +1000, Dion Gillard > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > The licensing on those is GPL. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:32:20 -0400, Jung, Eric > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Tim, > > > > > > Someone beat you to the punch. There's already an implementation > > at: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://ostermiller.org/utils/CSV.html > > > > > > and for excel: > > > > > > http://ostermiller.org/utils/ExcelCSV.html > > > > > > > > > > > > I haven't used them so I don't know how well they work. > > > > > > > > > > > > That said, these classes are on the lesser-known Giant Java Tree, > > not > > > > > > Commons, and are licensed under GPL, not LGPL :( so I would very > > much > > > > like > > > > > > to see your work whether or not the Commons folks are interested > > in > > > > > > publishing it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: Tim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:18 PM > > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Subject: CSV parser & printer > > > > > > > > > > > > I've implemented CSV parser & printer classes (with accompanying > > unit > > > > tests) > > > > > > that are Microsoft Excel compatible (i.e. it uses double quotes > > rather > > > > than > > > > > > an escape character). I'd like to donate it to commons; any > > interest? > > > > Which > > > > > > project would it go to - I didn't see one that jumped out as being > > the > > > > > > obvious candidate. > > > > > > > > > > > > Tim Dawson > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
