Custom conversions when writing CSV files using CsvHelper

Question

I\'ve been doing some CSV reading and writing lately, and ran across CsvHelper which is fantastic so far. I\'ve ran into one small problem; I use a custom converter when re

Answer 1

You can do it with a custom type converters (https://github.com/JoshClose/CsvHelper/wiki/Custom-TypeConverter). Just override ConvertToString method.

public class TestConverter : DefaultTypeConverter
{
    public override string ConvertToString(TypeConverterOptions options, object value)
    {
        return base.ConvertToString(options, value);
    }
}

and specify converter when mapping:

Map(m => m.PersonId).Index(0).TypeConverter<TestConverter>();