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Data Format Converter

Data Format Converter

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I felt that a lot of the functionality this module offers, either:

  • Didnā€™t suit a use case
  • Solutions are already provided

Some main exaples are:

  • No one really gets raw data to parse into CSV. Especially in the format this module expects. Iā€™m looking at you JSON to CSV. You would 99% of the time parse CSV data from a file.
  • JSON to CSV: No one really would have a CSV string. Yes itā€™s beneficial to parse it to JSON, but with three lines of code, it can be done using std

Here is some information to use in itā€™s place:

Parsing CSV

https://deno.land/std/encoding/ https://deno.land/x/csv

import { parse } from "https://deno.land/std/encoding/csv.ts"
// First get the csv data
const rawContent = Deno.readFileSync("./username.csv")
const decodedContent = new TextDecoder().decode(rawContent)
// Parse it
const parsed = await parse(decodedContent)
// parsed is already valid JSON. which results in a value that is exactly the same that CSV to JSON would produce
console.log(parsed)

Converting JSON to XML

Whilst there isnā€™t any Deno alternative, you can combine NPM with a CDN, or use version 1.2.0 of this module to still provide the functionality.

Though, cases where youā€™d want to convert JSON to XML are very slim, only legacy APIā€™s choose to use XML over JSON.

Convertin XML to JSON

There doesnā€™t seem to be an alternative as of yet (02/June/2020). Feel free to keep using v1.2.0 of this repository, but note there is a limitation with this:

  • It fails to parse if the xml character length if greater than 65,000