Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | Support more features for CSV-files as datasource | ||
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| Product: | z_Archived | Reporter: | Holger Buchner <Holger.Buchner> |
| Component: | BIRT | Assignee: | Xiaokun Yi <xyi> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | Holger.Buchner |
| Version: | 2.1.0 | Keywords: | plan |
| Target Milestone: | 2.2.0 M2 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Whiteboard: | Autoed | ||
Support for 4 types of flat files were implemented, comma-separated-values(CSV), semicolon-separated-values(SSV), tab-separated-values(TSV), and pipe-separated-values(PSV). It can be specified during the creation of flat file data source Support for comma-separated-values(CSV),semicolon-separated-values(SSV),tab-separated-values(TSV), and pipe-separated-values(PSV) were added, this can be specified during the creation of the flat file data source Support for comma-separated-values(CSV),semicolon-separated-values(SSV),tab-separated-values(TSV), and pipe-separated-values(PSV) were added, this can be specified during the creation of the flat file data source |
When working with with csv-files with BIRT as datasource, it turned out, that they are today hard limited: They support only ";" as Separators ("," and <TAB> or "|" would be recommended in addition, als well as there is no support for escaped characters in order to be able to have e.g. """ in Text-Columns. It would be helpfull to be able to select the separation character, the text-field-delimiter as well a an escape-character to be able to have special characters within the dataset. To avoid further problems, the determination of the characterset used (e.g. UTF-8, Ansi, Codepage xxx) would help to better specify, what data will is provided for BIRT.