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Added

• Add acceptCharsAfterQuotes() to CsvReaderBuilder and IndexedReaderBuilder to allow even stricter parsing

Changed

• Improved reader performance

Added

• IndexedCsvReader for random access to CSV files
• FieldModifier for modifying fields while reading CSV files
• Allow custom quote strategies for CsvWriter
• CsvCallbackHandler for more flexible usage of CsvReader
• Support for optional BOM header when reading CSV files
• Method NamedCsvRecord.findField for optional field access
• Allow READ comment strategy for CSV data with a header
• Metadata for OSGi capability

Changed

• Updated from Java 8 to Java 11
• Updated naming (rows/lines -> records, columns -> fields, differentiate between lines and records)
• NamedCsvReader replaced by CsvReader.builder().ofNamedCsvRecord()
• build methods in CsvReaderBuilder with callback handlers and ofCsvRecord / ofNamedCsvRecord as convenience methods
• Rename errorOnDifferentFieldCount() to ignoreDifferentFieldCount()
• QuoteStrategy is now an interface – defaults are provided by QuoteStrategies
• Throw CsvParseException instead of IOException when maximum field size is exceeded
• NamedCsvRecord extends CsvRecord and provides more access methods
• Raised the maximum field size to 16 MiB to match SUPER data type capabilities of Amazon Redshift
• Limit the maximum field count per record to 16,384 to prevent OutOfMemoryErrors
• Limit the maximum record size to 64 MiB to prevent OutOfMemoryErrors
• Several performance improvements
• Improved documentation and error messages

Removed

• Removed isEmpty() in CsvRecord as it was formerly only used for skipping empty records

Fixed

• Do not throw an exception when reading comments while enabling different field count checking

Added

• New quote strategy that adds quotes only for non-empty fields #80

Fixed

• Fixed a problem when refilling the input buffer while parsing nonconforming data (quote character within unquoted field) #67

Added

• Improved CsvReader performance for String input #63
• Added configurable buffer size for CsvWriter #63

Removed

• Erroneous random access file feature #59

[2.1.0] - 2021-10-17

Added

• Builder methods for standard encoding (UTF-8)
• Comment support for writer
• toString() method to CsvWriter and CsvWriterBuilder
• Support for random access file operations

Changed

• Improved error message when buffer exceeds (because of invalid CSV data) #52
• Defined 'de.siegmar.fastcsv' as the Automatic-Module-Name (JPMS module name)

[2.0.0] - 2021-01-01

Added

• Support for commented lines #31
• Support for multiple quoting strategies #39

Changed

• Completely re-engineered the API for better usability
• Improved performance
• Make use of Java 8 features (like Streams and Optionals)
• Replaced TestNG with JUnit 5
• Changed license from Apache 2.0 to MIT

Removed

• CsvContainer concept – use Stream.collect() as a replacement
• java.io.File API – use java.nio.file.Path instead

Fixed

• Fix null returning CsvContainer when only a header is present #38

Changed

• Remove unnecessary temporary objects in CsvAppender #8