com.opencsv.bean

Annotation Type CsvCustomBindByPosition

@Documented
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=FIELD)
public @interface CsvCustomBindByPosition

Allows us to specify a class that will perform the translation from source to destination. For special needs, we can implement a class that takes the source field from the CSV and translates it into a form of our choice.

Since:

3.8

Author:

Andrew Rucker Jones

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
Class<? extends AbstractBeanField>	converter The class that takes care of the conversion.
int	position The column position in the input that is used to fill the annotated field.

Element Detail

converter

public abstract Class<? extends AbstractBeanField> converter

The class that takes care of the conversion. Every custom converter must be descended from AbstractBeanField and override the method AbstractBeanField.convert(java.lang.String).

Returns:

The implementation that can convert to the type of this field.

position

public abstract int position

The column position in the input that is used to fill the annotated field.

Returns:

The position of the column in the CSV file from which this field should be taken. This column number is zero-based.