Castr

Popular Data Conversion Helpers

Usage

To convert a class to child class

var parentClass = new SimpleTestClass();
parentClass.Property1 = "test";
var castrClass = new CastrClass<SimpleTestClass>(
    parentClass, new Options.ClassOptions()
    {
        IsStrict = true
    });

var childClass = castrClass.CastAsClass<SimpleTestSubClass>();

Turning Strict off enables this to be used between any two classes that share property names.

Convert a CSV to a class (singular)

string csvData = File.ReadAllText(@"c:\txt.csv");
var csv = new CastrCSV(csvData, ",", true);

// Act
var newClass = csv.CastAsClass<SimpleTestClass>();

Convert a multi line CSV to a class list)

string csvData = File.ReadAllText(@"c:\txt.csv");
var csv = new CastrCSVMulti(csvData, ",", true);

// Act
var newClassEnumerable = csv.CastAsClassMulti<SimpleTestClass>();

Analysing a CSV without having a statically typed class

Castr also supports extracting and processing the data from a CSV without having a statically typed class to cast the data to. For example:

string csvData = File.ReadAllText("Data/stats.csv");
var csv = new Castr.CSV.CastrCSVMulti(csvData, ",", true);

var dataList = csv.GetRawData();

foreach (var data in dataList)
{   
    string result = csv.ExtractField("total_corners", data);
    DoSomethingWithData(result);
}

This only works where there are header fields, otherwise, you can simply process the raw data. For example:

string csvData = File.ReadAllText("Data/stats.csv");
var csv = new Castr.CSV.CastrCSVMulti(csvData, ",", true);

var dataList = csv.GetRawData();
foreach (var data in dataList)
{   
    string result = data[3];
    DoSomethingWithData(result);
}