Hello there
I see this issue on hold.
So far, no one else has an opinion on this issue.
I'm going to unsubscribe from this list for a while.
Please email me directly in case of a positive final decision.
sss.zuev {at} gmail / com
Thanks!
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 12:17 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've thought about this a little more and it seems to me that sorting and
> searching through any old binary file does not fit the remit of Commons IO
> or CSV. If anything it would be a new component, but it feels like the kind
> of database operations that do not fit in Commons.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 16:07 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Commons CSV supports the Java Streaming API so you can do whatever that
> > API offers, including filtering, sorting, finding, and so on.
> >
> > More than plain CSVs are supported, and I encourage you to peruse the
> site
> > https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/
> >
> > If you think that component can be enhanced, feel free to keep the
> > conversation going with a more specific proposal.
> >
> > WRT Commons IO, it seems to me that IO is a lower level component and
> does
> > not match your offering and that Commons CSV might too much toward CSV
> > files. OTHO, it does not seem like what you propose would be generic
> enough
> > to parse any binary file, say an old school dBASE file, but I could be
> > wrong.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 13:35 ssz <sss.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Does common-csv support **sorting** large?
> >> Does it support binary search?
> >> What should I do if I have a non-csv text file?
> >>
> >> Actually I didn't say that textfile-utils is a library for working with
> >> csv
> >> files.
> >> I just provided you with an example.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 8:23 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > If the intent is to process CSV files, you're missing quite parameters
> >> in
> >> > order to process all of the different CSV flavors, see Apache Commons
> >> CSV.
> >> >
> >> > Gary
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 13:16 ssz <sss.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > text-files sort. e.g. CSV.
> >> > >
> >> > > Example:
> >> > > content: `d,420;b,42;b,21;a;21;c;"42"`, delimiter ';'
> >> > > after sort by prefix: `a:21;b,42;b,21;c:"42";d,420`
> >> > > binary search by prefix `b`: `b,42;b,21`
> >> > >
> >> > > The project is completed with tests and documentation.
> >> > > It is open source.
> >> > > Github: https://github.com/DataFabricRus/textfile-utils
> >> > >
> >> > > I think there shouldn't be any problems with reading the code.
> >> > > Kotlin - is advanced java, or you can consider it as pseudocode.
> >> > >
> >> > > Perhaps I should supplement the description in `README.md` to make
> it
> >> > > clearer?
> >> > > Could you please tell me what I should include?
> >> > >
> >> > > Yes, many databases have sorted files under the hood.
> >> > > But what should I do if I need to just search in a big file?
> >> > > I can't reuse database code, I can't make a particular trivial task
> >> more
> >> > > complicated by using a database. I haven't been able to find any
> good
> >> > > solutions in regular libraries.
> >> > > So I invented this bicycle.I think the desire to have such a library
> >> is
> >> > > understandable.
> >> > >
> >> > > Please ask any questions.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 6:40 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com
> >
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Hello,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > This seems to be me like a mismatch with Commons IO.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > What does it even mean to "sort" a file which are really a bunch
> of
> >> > > bytes.
> >> > > > Do you have a relevant example (Java base)?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > This feels more like a database primitive to me. What am I
> missing?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Gary
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 10:42 ssz <sss.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > It seems to be well-known and generic functionality, so it would
> >> be
> >> > > nice
> >> > > > to
> >> > > > > have it in some well-known common place.
> >> > > > > Is *apache/commons-io* this place?
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Here is the draft:
> >> https://github.com/DataFabricRus/textfile-utils
> >> > > > > This is my library made for DataFablic, it is written on kotlin
> >> with
> >> > > > > coroutines and Java NIO.
> >> > > > > Of course, it can be ported to java (preserving kotlin-version
> for
> >> > > > > multiplatform)
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
