Tag: papa parse

I’ve been trying to embrace/balance using more libraries and less native code. The CSV parsing I needed to do on InviteAgain.com was a great candidate. I found PapaParse. Perfect. Simple javascript class that can handle all use cases via a single settings object.

I setup an Angular directive and template that I can plug in anywhere to get a custom file input UI. That UI contains another directive linked to the file input event. On file input angular hands the csv off to the Papa object. I tell it the data has headers, to use web workers, and to run $apply() on the scope after it’s completed parsing the file. Papa hands me back a javascript object with all the csv’s key/value pairs. Done.

.directive('onReadFile', function ($parse) {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    scope: {conSec: '=', current: '='},
    link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
      element.on('change', function(onChangeEvent) {

      var file = (onChangeEvent.srcElement || onChangeEvent.target).files[0];

       Papa.parse(file, {
          header: true,
          worker: true,

          complete: function(results) {
            if(scope.conSec.name){
              scope.conSec.fileInput.err = results.err;
              scope.conSec.fileInput.data = results.data;
              scope.conSec.fileInput.meta = results.meta;
              // Need to force the update
              scope.$apply();
            }
          }
        });
      });
    }
  };
})

.directive('fileInput', function(){
  return {
    restrict: 'E',
    scope: {conSec: '=', current: '='},
    templateUrl: "../templates/fileInput.html"
  };
});