pizzaMargherita

a small nodejs lib that takes json and turns it into .csv or takes your .csv and turns it into json!

Features

General

• Converts Json objects and csv files
• Reads and Converts files for you

Converter from JSON to CSV supporting:

• fields having nested objects
• fields having array of simple types
• fields having array of objects --> data replaced with Array({size_of_the_array})

Converter from CSV to JSON supporting:

• fields having nested objects
• Does not yet support arrays in csv fields

Instructions

Simply require pizzaMargherita in your project and innitialize it with your csv configurations. You get a converter in return that you can use to convert objects in plain javascript or reads them from a file for you.

var pizzaMargherita = require('pizzaMargherita');
var convert = pizzaMargherita({
	field_seperator: ','
});

convert.csvToJsonFromFile('/myfile.csv', function( error, result ) {
	if( error )
		return console.error('Oh crap.');

	console.log('My json object converted from the csv file: ', result );
});

Config

key	default	description
fieldSeperator	;	Seperator of columns
listSeperator	,	Seperator of values in an array column
rowSepereator	\n	Seperator of rows
memberSeperator	.	Seperator of object members for nested objects

Api

method	description
csvToJson( csv_string: String ): Object	Reads a csv string and returns a Json object
jsonToCsv( json_object: Object ): String	Reads Json Object and Retruns a csv string
csvToJsonFromFile( file:String, callback:Function ): undefined	Reads a csv file and calls callback with a JsonObject as the second paramter or and error as the first parameter