OpenCSV - How to map selected columns to Java Bean regardless of order?

Question

I have a CSV file with the following columns: id, fname, telephone, lname, address.

I have a P

Answer 1

You can use HeaderColumnNameTranslateMappingStrategy. Lets assume your CSV has the following columns: Id, Fname, Telephone, Lname, Address for the sake of simplicity.

CsvToBean csvToBean = new CsvToBean();

Map columnMapping = new HashMap();
columnMapping.put("Id", "id");
columnMapping.put("Fname", "fname");
columnMapping.put("Lname", "lname");

HeaderColumnNameTranslateMappingStrategy strategy = new HeaderColumnNameTranslateMappingStrategy();
strategy.setType(Person.class);
strategy.setColumnMapping(columnMapping);

List list = null;
CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new InputStreamReader(ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("test.csv")));
list = csvToBean.parse(strategy, reader);

The columnMapping will map the columns with your Person object.