FixedLengthListBinder and CsvListBinder always need a class model problem

[eapereira]

Hello, I was trying to use Smooks to convert some FTL and CSV files, in my case I dont have a model for those files, all I have is the columns names and length from my database.

What I need is to create a list of maps from those file's columns. But I cant use smooks 'cause it needs for FixedLengthListBinder and CsvListBinder a class to use to store the data.

If FixedLengthListBinder and CsvListBinder could return a List would solve my problem.

What I must implement to achieve that?

[manish-in-java]

@eapereira, not sure if you found something else that works for you, so posting this message. You might want to take a look at uniVocity Parsers, a Java library for reading and writing data from and to text-based file formats like CSV, TSV and fixed-width.

You might want to take a look at this tutorial that specifically describes reading data as a Map.