/** Copyright (c) 2007 Ricebridge. BSD License. */

package com.ricebridge.example.updown;


import java.util.Properties;
import com.ricebridge.csvman.CsvSpec;


/** Setup the CSV format using a set of properties.
 *  The properties are populated from HTML form values. */
public class CsvSpecHandler {

  /** Only the field separator is supported, but you can easily extend this 
   *  method to handle other settings in the CsvSpec class. */
  public static CsvSpec makeCsvSpec( Properties pProperties ) {
    CsvSpec csvspec = new CsvSpec();

    // set these so that we can keep processing data even if there are some
    // errors - we'll collect the errors and report them later
    csvspec.setIgnoreBadLines(true);
    csvspec.setIgnoreEmptyLines(true);

    String sep = pProperties.getProperty("Separator");
    if( null != sep && !"".equals(sep) ) {
      csvspec.setSeparator(sep);
    }
    
    return csvspec;
  }
}