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CSV
Overview
CSV stands for comma separated values. It is a plain text format commonly used for serialization of tabular data. It is specified in RFC 4180. CSV provides a simple way to get tabular data into other applications such as Excel.
CSV is represented by the def filetype:csv
.
Grid Format
Haystack defines a standard mapping of grids into CSV, which is used by the HTTP API. Due to its simplicity, CSV does not provide full fidelity with the Haystack grid model -- metadata and type information is discarded.
The Grid to CSV mapping is as follows:
- First row is the column display names (programmatic names and meta is discarded)
- Subsequent rows map to rows from the Grid
- Marker cells are encoded as the Unicode checkmark code point U+2713
- Null cells are encoded as the empty string
- Ref cells are encoded as "@id dis", for example "@3ef7 Site-1"
- Bools are encoded as "true" or "false"
- Strs and Uris are encoded using their unescaped value
- Everything else is encoded using its Zinc encoding
Example:
// Zinc ver:"3.0" projName:"test" dis "Equip Name",equip,siteRef,installed "RTU-1",M,@153c600e-699a1886 "HQ",2005-06-01 "RTU-2",M,@153c600e-699a1886 "HQ",1999-07-12 // CSV Equip Name,equip,siteRef,installed RTU-1,✓,@153c600e-699a1886 HQ,2005-06-01 RTU-2,✓,@153c600e-699a1886 HQ,1999-07-12