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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CSV-82: ----------------------------------- The header line should indeed identify all the columns of the file, but the parsing code might be ready to handle more columns than actually present. I have a case where a file contains a date and a time column. The file is generated by a servlet, and depending on a query parameter the time column might be omitted. There is a unique parsing code for both cases, this code considers the time information as optional. It fetches the time column by name and simply ignores a null value. > CSVRecord inconsistent behaviour when header mapping is not found > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CSV-82 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-82 > Project: Commons CSV > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sebb > > The CSVRecord#get(String) method has inconsistent behaviour. > If no header mapping was provided, then it throws IllegalStateException. > If the header name is not found, null is returned. > Apart from being inconsistent, it might be useful in the future to be able to > return null as a column value (as distinct from the empty string). > It should throw IllegalArgumentException for a missing header name, instead > of returning null. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira