On 16 October 2012 21:00, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM, James Carman > <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I did not do this one as is it seems RFC4180 defines CR+LF as the record >> > separator as noted in the Javadoc for >> > org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat.DEFAULT. >> > >> >> That's where the name of this component gets confusing to me. Since >> it's called "CSV", it would make sense that we follow RFC 4180, which >> defines the standard for comma-separated value files and thus the >> default record separator would be CRLF. However, we are allowing >> users to define whatever format they want using properties of the >> CSVFormat class (of course, if you use delimiter != ',', then it's not >> really CSV). So, what's the intent? This is more of a >> delimited-record format parser/writer component which supports CSV. >> Thus, it is not really very well-named.
CSV could stand for Character Separated Variables. Although CSV usually means comma-separated, I think it is treated as a generic name sufficiently often that the it is not likely to be a big problem. The difficulty with all the other names is that they are not at all well known. >> > > Why not rename DEFAULT to RFC418? I agree that DEFAULT is a poor name, but could not get agreement to change it previously. There is already an RFC4180; DEFAULT is RFC4180 + allow blank lines. > Gary > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 > Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
