We had that before but switched to Iterable to make it possible to use CSVPaarser in foreach loops.
2013/8/13 Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> > My thinking was more that CSVParser itself implements Iterator. > > Matt > On Aug 13, 2013 2:59 AM, "Benedikt Ritter" <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Matt, > > > > > > 2013/8/12 Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> > > > > > As someone with no prior involvement with this component, and at risk > of > > > being hit by the digital tomatoes of the group, this seems to indicate > to > > > me that once a parser definition has been joined to a source of input, > > the > > > resulting object *is* the record iterator. If there's no way to twist > > that > > > into a comfortable API, I would tend to agree with Benedikt: calling > > > #iterator() a second time should do something like triggering an > > > IllegalStateException(). > > > > > > > No tomatoes, don't worry ;-) feedback is always welcome. > > > > I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. Are you thinking of > > something like: > > > > Iterator<CSVRecord> itr = CSVParser.parse(myCsvFile); > > > > CSVParser has some features that go beyond the capabilities of the > > Iterator() interface. For example one can ask the parser for the current > > line number in your input and the current record number (which may not be > > the same for multi line records). > > How about extending the Iterator interface? > > > > CSVIterator itr = CSVParser.parse(myCsvFile); > > > > and CSVIterator would look like: > > > > public interface CSVIterator extends Iterator<CSVRecord> { > > // call the cool CSVParser stuff goes here > > } > > > > But this wouldn't prevent more than one iterator over the same source... > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > > > > > $0.02, > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I've added a new test to CSVParser test case that shows what > happens > > if > > > > > CSVParser.iterator() is called twice [1]. > > > > > > > > > > This looks pretty strange to me. One iterator can eat up records of > > the > > > > > other. > > > > > Would it be better to throw an exception if iterator() is called > more > > > > than > > > > > once? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, there is something odd about the current impl. Wouldn't it be > > > obvious > > > > what can be done if there is an iterator ivar and the accessor just > > > returns > > > > it? It does not even have to be lazy initialized. > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > > > > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/r1513228 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > > > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > > > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > > > > http://github.com/britter > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > > > > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition< > > > > http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > > > > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > > > > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > > > > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > > > > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > > > > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > http://github.com/britter > > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter