Read a CSV file
Task: show the active customers of a CSV file, oldest first.
yaml
# Recipe: read a CSV file, typed, filtered and sorted — no database.
paths:
components: ./componentstext
id,name,age,active
1,Ana,28,true
2,Bruno,35,true
3,Carla,42,false
4,Davi,19,yesDeclared columns are typed (true, 1, yes and on are a true boolean); the others come as text. q:transform runs its operations in order.
xml
<q:component name="Customers">
<!-- The path is relative to the app's folder. Declared columns are typed;
the others come as text. -->
<q:data name="customers" source="import/customers.csv" type="csv">
<q:column name="id" type="integer" />
<q:column name="age" type="integer" />
<q:column name="active" type="boolean" />
<q:transform>
<q:filter condition="active" />
<q:sort by="age" order="desc" />
</q:transform>
</q:data>
<ui:window title="Active customers">
<ui:table source="{customers}">
<ui:column key="name" label="Name" />
<ui:column key="age" label="Age" />
</ui:table>
</ui:window>
</q:component>xml
<q:test name="the active customers, oldest first" page="/">
<test:visit />
<test:expect text="Bruno 35 Ana 28 Davi 19" />
<test:expect no-text="Carla" />
</q:test>text
tests/customers.test.q
PASS the active customers, oldest first
1 passed, 0 failedSee DATA-1 and DATA-3, and Data Import.