[CSV] Creating CSVFormats (again :)

[Benedikt Ritter <br...@apache.org>]

Sorry, forgot the prefix...


2013/5/20 Benedikt Ritter <br...@apache.org>

> Hi guys,
>
> a while back we had this discussion [1] about the current state of the
> CSVFormat API. We were still not completely happy with it and Oliver came
> up with a new suggestion [2].
> This weekend I finally had some time to hack something together. I've
> created a mirror of CSV rev. 1484347 at github [3].
>
> This proposal uses CSVFormatModifier objects to change a CSVFormat. The
> API relies on static imports of factory methods for CSVFormatModifiers and
> looks like the following:
>
> CSVFormat modifed = CSVFormat.DEFAULT.with(
>  delimiter(';'),
> noEscape(),
>  commentStart('#'));
>
> So far I've implemented methods for changing delimiter, commentStart,
> escape and quote policy (have a look at CSVFormatModifierTest). The
> approach has the advantage of being short like the initial implementation,
> while making sure that CSVFormat is immutable and validated at
> construction time. The draw back however is, that it is a bit of a pain to
> get all the static imports in place (at least this is my feeling with
> Eclipse, any suggestions on how to work efficiently with static imports in
> eclipse are appreciated :)
>
> Now I'd like to ask you for feedback. Do you like this approach? Any
> suggestions?
> One thing I'm not sure about is MutableCSVFormat. Maybe this can be merged
> together with CSVFormatModifier.
>
> Regards,
> Benedikt
>
>
> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/o3s2a5hyj6xh4nzj
> [2] http://markmail.org/message/vjjdbckwr4dlqp2b
> [3] https://github.com/britter/apache-commons-csv-mirror
>
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