Re: Importing CSV files

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 16:48 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> I'm starting to implement importing CSV files into glom tables. There is
> a rough UI mockup at http://arbur.net/stuff/importcsv.png. Do people
> think more/other options are required? Perhaps always the current table
> should be used, so the "Import Into Table:" field can be removed.
> 
> When the "First line as title" checkbutton is not checked, then the
> treeview headers can simply be removed. The TreeView itself shows some
> example rows and lets the user associate the fields in the CSV file to
> fields in the Glom table. It's perhaps a bit more complicated to
> implement than a vertical view, but I think it's more convenient this
> way and so probably worth the effort.
> 
> Are there other comments/suggestions concerning the planned UI?
> 
> I also had a look at GdaDataModelImport, but it does not seem to support
> progressive loading, which I think is necessary for importing big files
> without blocking the UI and showing progress bars.

I just committed an initial version of CSV file importing. I added a
"Insert Into Table" menu item to the Tables menu, though it is perhaps
better to have that menu item elsewhere (Export is in the File menu).

Probably more encodings need to be added. I could copy the list from
gedit.

I did not use GdaDataModelImport for now so that the file can already
started to be parsed while not having been fully read yet. I'm not sure
this is necessary for average use (although perhaps nice for large files
on slow (network?) drives), but the GIO API makes it easy to implement
anyway.

Feedback is very much appreciated.

Armin

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