Provide AbstractCSVDataProvider constructor that uses URL about org.fastnate HOT 3 CLOSED

You are right, AbstractCsvDataProvider was developed with files in mind and is neglected since then. In our projects we use a custom DataProvider for CSV files from resources.

This change won't be as easy as it seems, because the AbstractCsvDataProvider should still provide the ability to read all CSV files from a whole directory.

I guess I will split the functionality into two parts:

1. A DataProvider where I can map columns to properties.
2. A ColumnReader with different implementations.

That way I can either read the columns from a single CSV file (from an URL), from a directory, or even from an Excel file without having to change the DataProvider.

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This is still work in progress, so I decided to push it to version 1.5.0

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It took some while, but there is now an API to parse files from the class path or even from other URLs. The CSV support has moved to the fastnate-csv module. Check OrganisationData.java from the fastnate-examples project for the usage of the new API.

If you still need to read the file from an URL, you can use importer.importFile(new UrlDataFile(url)).

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