CsvHelper - Read different record types in same CSV

Question

I\'m trying to read two types of records out of a CSV file with the following structure:

PlaceName,Longitude,Latitude,El         


        

Answer 1

I got a response from Josh Close on the issue tracker:

CsvReader not recognising different registered class maps

Here is his answer to this question:

Since you don't have a single header, you'll need to ignore headers and use indexes instead. This brings up an idea though. I could have the ReadHeader method parse headers for a specific record type.

Here is an example that should work for you though.

void Main()
{
    LocationDefinition Location;
    var Counts = new List<CountDefinition>();

    using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
    using (var writer = new StreamWriter(stream))
    using (var csvReader = new CsvReader(reader))
    {
        writer.WriteLine("PlaceName,Longitude,Latitude,Elevation");
        writer.WriteLine("NameString,123.456,56.78,40");
        writer.WriteLine();
        writer.WriteLine("Date,Count");
        writer.WriteLine("1/1/2012,1");
        writer.WriteLine("2/1/2012,3");
        writer.WriteLine("3/1/2012,10");
        writer.WriteLine("4/2/2012,6");
        writer.Flush();
        stream.Position = 0;

        csvReader.Configuration.HasHeaderRecord = false;
        csvReader.Configuration.RegisterClassMap<LocationMap>();
        csvReader.Configuration.RegisterClassMap<CountMap>();

        csvReader.Read(); // get header
        csvReader.Read(); // get first record
        var locationData = csvReader.GetRecord<LocationDefinition>();

        csvReader.Read(); // skip blank line
        csvReader.Read(); // skip second header section

        // Read count data records
        while (csvReader.Read())
        {
            var tempCount = csvReader.GetRecord<CountDefinition>();         
            Counts.Add(tempCount);
        }
    }
}

public class LocationDefinition
{
    public string PlaceName { get; set; }
    public double Longitude { get; set; }
    public double Latitude { get; set; }
    public double Elevation { get; set; }
}

public sealed class LocationMap : CsvClassMap<LocationDefinition>
{
    public LocationMap()
    {
        Map(m => m.PlaceName);
        Map(m => m.Longitude);
        Map(m => m.Latitude);
        Map(m => m.Elevation);
    }
}

public class CountDefinition
{
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
    public int Count { get; set; }
}

public sealed class CountMap : CsvClassMap<CountDefinition>
{
    public CountMap()
    {
        Map(m => m.Date);
        Map(m => m.Count);
    }
}

Answer 2

Try this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    enum State
    {
        FIND_RECORD,
        GET_LOCATION,
        GET_DATES
    }
    class Program
    {
        const string FILENAME = @"c:\temp\test.txt";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(FILENAME);
            State state = State.FIND_RECORD;

            LocationDefinition location = null;
            string inputLine = "";
            while ((inputLine = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                inputLine = inputLine.Trim();
                if (inputLine.Length == 0)
                {
                    state = State.FIND_RECORD;
                }
                else
                {
                    switch (state)
                    {
                        case State.FIND_RECORD :
                            if (inputLine.StartsWith("PlaceName"))
                            {
                                state = State.GET_LOCATION;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                if (inputLine.StartsWith("Date"))
                                {
                                    state = State.GET_DATES;
                                }
                            }
                            break;
                        case State.GET_DATES :
                            if (location.dates == null) location.dates = new CountDefinition();
                            location.dates.dates.Add(new CountDefinition(inputLine));
                            break;
                        case State.GET_LOCATION :
                            location = new LocationDefinition(inputLine);
                            break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    public class LocationDefinition
    {
        public static List<LocationDefinition> locations = new List<LocationDefinition>();
        public CountDefinition dates { get; set; }
        public string PlaceName { get; set; }
        public double Longitude { get; set; }
        public double Latitude { get; set; }
        public double Elevation { get; set; }

        public LocationDefinition(string location)
        {
            string[] array = location.Split(new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
            PlaceName = array[0];
            Longitude = double.Parse(array[1]);
            Latitude = double.Parse(array[2]);
            Elevation = double.Parse(array[3]);
            locations.Add(this);
         }
    }



    public class CountDefinition
    {
        public List<CountDefinition> dates = new List<CountDefinition>();
        public DateTime Date { get; set; }
        public int Count { get; set; }

        public CountDefinition() { ;}

        public CountDefinition(string count)
        {
            string[] array = count.Split(new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
            Date = DateTime.Parse(array[0]);
            Count = int.Parse(array[1]);
            dates.Add(this);
        }
    }


}