I meant the Collection members of beans. I think that it won't be so easy to hold a complex data structure in human-readable form in a "singe" csv file.
Am 28.11.2011 um 22:28 schrieb Simone Tripodi: > What do you mean by collections? A single collection of CSV annotated > elements, or inner collection of a CSV annotated element? > I have doubts on option #2, I would expect that any CSV record is > mapped to a single Java POJO... or not? > Simo > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ > http://twitter.com/simonetripodi > http://www.99soft.org/ > > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Erhan Bagdemir > <erhan.bagde...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Apache JCA >> Java CSV API :-) >> It is a very cool approach to use annotations for mapping CSV fields with >> beans. >> >> It can be even configured using a class annotation like this: >> @CSVEntity(seperator= COMMA, quotas=true|false,... ) >> public class Person { >> @CSVField(header="NAME", width=15) >> } >> >> But how will the Collections be handled ? >> >> >> Am 28.11.2011 um 21:14 schrieb Simone Tripodi: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I like the idea of having annotations, and here in CVS you are >>> proposing IMHO a very good approach. If you need some support, as >>> mentioned by Matt, I already deeply explored Annotations analysis at >>> runtime, have a look at[1] >>> >>> @Matt: you reminded me an old idea I had about opening the digester to >>> other formats, not just XML... coming soon with a new proposal :) >>> >>> Have a nice day, >>> Simo >>> >>> [1] http://commons.apache.org/digester/guide/annotations.html >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> [SNIP] >>>>> >>>>> The other idea relates to the bean mapping feature. CSVFormat could be >>>>> generified and work on annotated classes. I imagine something like this: >>>>> >>>>> public class Person { >>>>> @CSVField(trim = true) >>>>> private String firstname; >>>>> >>>>> @CSVField(header="NAME", width=12) >>>>> private String lastname; >>>>> >>>>> @CSVField(header="DATE", format="yyyy-MM-dd") >>>>> private Date birthdate; >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> then: >>>>> >>>>> CSVFormat<Person> format = new CSVFormat().withType(Person.class); >>>>> >>>>> for (Person person : format.parse(in)) { >>>>> .... >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> What do you think? >>>> >>>> These make me think of the annotation support Simo added to >>>> [digester]. I wonder if there would be any value in extending >>>> [digester]'s scope to formats beyond XML including CSV/flat files/etc. >>>> >>>> Matt >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Emmanuel Bourg >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
