Package com.marcosavard.commons.io

Class CsvReader

java.lang.Object

com.marcosavard.commons.io.CsvReader

public class CsvReader
extends java.lang.Object

This class reads a CSV input (a file usually) and returns a list of values.

Author:

Marco

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CsvReader(java.io.Reader reader, int nbHeaders, char sep)	Builds a CSV reader from a standard Reader instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	hasNext()	Tells if CSV has next rows to read.
java.util.List<java.lang.String>	readHeaderColumns()	Read header columns, if the case where there is only one line of header
java.util.List<java.util.List<java.lang.String>>	readHeaders()	Read headers, in the case there are several lines of headers
java.util.List<java.lang.String>	readLine()	Read a line in the CSV input.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CsvReader

public CsvReader(java.io.Reader reader,
                 int nbHeaders,
                 char sep)

Builds a CSV reader from a standard Reader instance.

Parameters:

reader -

nbHeaders -

sep -

Method Detail

readHeaderColumns

public java.util.List<java.lang.String> readHeaderColumns()
                                                   throws java.io.IOException

Read header columns, if the case where there is only one line of header

Returns:

the list of columns

Throws:

java.io.IOException

readHeaders

public java.util.List<java.util.List<java.lang.String>> readHeaders()
                                                             throws java.io.IOException

Read headers, in the case there are several lines of headers

Returns:

the list of columns

Throws:

java.io.IOException

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Tells if CSV has next rows to read.

Returns:

true if CSV has more rows to read.

readLine

public java.util.List<java.lang.String> readLine()
                                          throws java.io.IOException

Read a line in the CSV input.

Returns:

a list of cell values.

Throws:

java.io.IOException