[jira] [Created] (CSV-196) Store the info of whether a field is enclosed by quotes

["Matt Sun (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Matt Sun created CSV-196:
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             Summary: Store the info of whether a field is enclosed by quotes
                 Key: CSV-196
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-196
             Project: Commons CSV
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Parser
    Affects Versions: 1.4
            Reporter: Matt Sun
            Priority: Minor


It will be good to have CSVParser class to store the info of whether a field was enclosed by quotes in the original source file.
For example, for this data sample:

A, B, C
a1, "b1", c1

CSVParser gives us record a1, b1, c1, which is helpful because it parsed double quotes, but we also lost the information of original data at the same time. We can tell from the CSVRecord returned whether the original data is enclosed by double quotes or not.

In our use case, we are integrating Apache Hadoop APIs with Commons CSV.  CSV is one kind of input of Hadoop, which should splitting input data. To accurately split a CSV file into pieces, the program needs to count the bytes of  data CSVParser actually read. CSVParser doesn't have accurate information of whether a field was enclosed by quotes, neither does it store raw data of the original source. Downstream users of commons CSVParser is not able to get those info.

To suggest a fix: Extend the token/CSVRecord to have a field indicating whether the column was enclosed by quotes. While Lexer is doing getNextToken, set the flag if a field is encapsulated and successfully parsed.

I find another issue reported, but it was marked as resolved: [CSV91] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-91?jql=project%20%3D%20CSV%20AND%20text%20~%20%22with%20quotes%22



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