GroovyCSV

GroovyCSV is a library for Groovy which aims to make csv data easier (and more idiomatically Groovy) to work with. The library was inspired by @goeh's ExcelBuilder that lets you iterate over rows in the excel file using eachLine and access values using the column names.

Important

Package structure was changed from com.xlson.csvparser to com.xlson.groovycsv between release 0.1 and 0.2.

Features

Value-access by header name or position
Iteration using the ordinary collection methods (findAll, collect and so on)
Full support for OpenCSV's configurability
Support for guessing separator and/or quote character
Support for reading csv without headers

Example

The parse method returns an iterator over the rows in the csv. This means we can use any of the default groovy ways to iterate, in this example we see the for each loop in use.

@Grab('com.xlson.groovycsv:groovycsv:1.0')
import static com.xlson.groovycsv.CsvParser.parseCsv

def csv = '''Name,Lastname
Mark,Andersson
Pete,Hansen'''

def data = parseCsv(csv)
for(line in data) {
    println "$line.Name $line.Lastname"
}

The parse method takes a String or a Reader as argument.

Output:

Mark Andersson
Pete Hansen

Getting GroovyCSV

GroovyCSV is available in Maven Central. It is also available directly from GitHub (links below).

Maven & Ivy configuration

Latest stable

GroupId: com.xlson.groovycsv
ArtifactId: groovycsv
Version: 1.0

Latest snapshot

Version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
Repository: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/

Downloads

GroovyCSV 1.0

Dependencies

Many thanks to Glen Smith and the other's in the OpenCSV team for doing all the heavy lifting.

Building

GroovyCSV uses Gradle for building as is packaged with the gradle wrapper which will download and install gradle for you behind the scenes the first time you run it.

Build instruction

Fetch the latest code: git clone git://github.com/xlson/groovycsv.git
(Optional) Run the tests using the gradle wrapper ./gradlew test
Go to the project directory and run: ./gradlew jar

You will find the built jar in ./build/libs. If you need any dependencies you can download them using ./gradlew downloadDeps, they end up in the lib folder.

lnds / groovycsv