Meteor CSV reader/writer

A Meteor isomorphic CSV reader/writer

• Papa Parse for client side : http://papaparse.com/
• baby parse for server side.
• Usage of fibers to read csv source line by line on server side

Quickstart

given a csv file like that (simple.csv)

1;01;ozan;OZAN;Ozan;O250;OSN;01190;284;01284;2;26;6;618;469;500;94;660;4.91667;46.3833;2866;51546;+45456;462330;170;205;14126;8823;26916
2;01;marboz;MARBOZ;Marboz;M612;MRBS;01851;232;01232;2;11;6;2182;2164;2200;54;4014;5.25;46.3333;3246;51492;+51530;462033;194;240;4580;14287;1768
3;01;foissiat;FOISSIAT;Foissiat;F230;FST;01340;163;01163;2;21;6;1912;1562;1900;47;4036;5.18333;46.3667;3153;51523;+51029;462213;186;228;5227;15952;1738

You can use server-side code synchronous to load line by line the csv file

CSV.readCsvFileLineByLine('simple.csv', function (line, index, rawParsedLine) {
    lines.push(line);
});

lines[0][1] === "01";

If you want to insert in your collection, you need to wrap your insert, to make sure your code will be run synchronuously:

CSV.readCsvFileLineByLine('simple.csv', Meteor.bindEnvironment(function (line, index, rawParsedLine) {
  Collection.insert({
   property: line.property
  }));
});

If you got more complex CSV files, with headers and escaping chars,

"id":"firstName":"lastName"
"1":"jimi":"hendrix"
"2":"jim":"morrison"

you can simply add options to make it simple (refer to papa docs : http://papaparse.com/docs#config)

CSV.readCsvFileLineByLine(process.env.PWD + '/vicious.csv', {
    headers: true,
    delimiter: ":",
}, function (line) {
    lines.push(line);
});

lines[0].firstName === "foo";
lines[1].firstName === "jim";

Changelog

0.1.4

• server file parsing done by NPM byline instead of readline lib

0.1.3

• update docs

0.1.2

• Fix bug on empty lines,
• delete empty lines is now default settings
• line reader callback recieve line count as second parameter, and third parmaters is raw parsed Baby Parse line