module Sequel::Plugins::CsvSerializer

  1. lib/sequel/plugins/csv_serializer.rb

csv_serializer handles serializing entire Sequel::Model objects to CSV, as well as support for deserializing CSV directly into Sequel::Model objects. It requires the csv standard library.

Basic Example:

album = Album[1]
album.to_csv(write_headers: true)
# => "id,name,artist_id\n1,RF,2\n"

You can provide options to control the CSV output:

album.to_csv(only: :name)
album.to_csv(except: [:id, :artist_id])
# => "RF\n"

to_csv also exists as a class and dataset method, both of which return all objects in the dataset:

Album.to_csv
Album.where(artist_id: 1).to_csv

If you have an existing array of model instances you want to convert to CSV, you can call the class to_csv method with the :array option:

Album.to_csv(array: [Album[1], Album[2]])

In addition to creating CSV, this plugin also enables Sequel::Model classes to create instances directly from CSV using the from_csv class method:

csv = album.to_csv
album = Album.from_csv(csv)

The array_from_csv class method exists to parse arrays of model instances from CSV:

csv = Album.where(artist_id: 1).to_csv
albums = Album.array_from_csv(csv)

These do not necessarily round trip, since doing so would let users create model objects with arbitrary values. By default, from_csv will call set with the values in the hash. If you want to specify the allowed fields, you can use the :headers option.

Album.from_csv(album.to_csv, headers: %w'id name')

If you want to update an existing instance, you can use the from_csv instance method:

album.from_csv(csv)

Usage:

# Add CSV output capability to all model subclass instances (called
# before loading subclasses)
Sequel::Model.plugin :csv_serializer

# Add CSV output capability to Album class instances
Album.plugin :csv_serializer

Methods

Public Class

  1. configure

Public Class methods

configure(model, opts = OPTS)

Set up the column readers to do deserialization and the column writers to save the value in deserialized_values

[show source] 
   # File lib/sequel/plugins/csv_serializer.rb
70 def self.configure(model, opts = OPTS)
71   model.instance_exec do
72     @csv_serializer_opts = (@csv_serializer_opts || OPTS).merge(opts)
73   end
74 end