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ASF GitHub Bot logged work on CSV-239:
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                Author: ASF GitHub Bot
            Created on: 27/May/19 22:17
            Start Date: 27/May/19 22:17
    Worklog Time Spent: 10m 
      Work Description: garydgregory commented on issue #42: [CSV-239] Add 
javadoc to CSVFormat
URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-csv/pull/42#issuecomment-496313946
 
 
   Merged. Thank you!
 
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    Worklog Id:     (was: 249050)
    Time Spent: 3.5h  (was: 3h 20m)

> Cannot get headers in column order from CSVRecord
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CSV-239
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-239
>             Project: Commons CSV
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.6
>            Reporter: Dave Moten
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.7
>
>          Time Spent: 3.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> I have a use case where I read many lines from an arbitrary csv file with a 
> given CSVFormat as List<CSVRecord>, transform that list and then want to 
> write the transformed list to another file. 
> When I specify the format as CSVFormat.DEFAULT.withFirstRecordAsHeader() the 
> headers from the first line are available in the CSVRecord object via the 
> CSVRecord.toMap object but their column positions are not (the iteration of 
> the returned map does not reflect column order). Consequently I cannot write 
> a header line in the correct order to the output csv file (which I do when 
> the first CSVRecord is to be written).
> Another option would be to be to ensure that the CSVPrinter object writes the 
> header on the first call to CSVPrinter.printRecord but we should also be able 
> to cover the user case where we are writing to a non-csv format and we still 
> want to write the headers in the correct order. 
> My preference at minimum is that the headers with column order are available 
> from CSVRecord (after all the data to supply this is already present in 
> CVSRecord). The addition of a method `getHeaders` returning a `List<String>` 
> would do the job. I'm happy to submit a PR if desired.
> I've marked this as of minor importance but I think it's a pretty important 
> flaw in the library at the moment that prevents event the simplest of 
> round-trip (read then write) scenarios when the headers are read from the 
> file rather than known up-front.



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