[CAMEL-9432] Bindy CSV separator not treated as regex but fixed character in all cases

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.16.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.15.6, 2.16.3, 2.17.0
• Component/s: camel-bindy
• Estimated Complexity: Novice
• Assignee: Luca Burgazzoli
• Reporter: Jon Fields
• Created: 17/Dec/15 20:18
• Updated: 25/Feb/16 09:45
• Resolved: 25/Feb/16 07:12

Description

In the camel-bindy documentation (http://camel.apache.org/bindy.html) it says that the @CsvRecord separator parameter is interpreted as a regex. While that does seem to be the case when the record is being parsed, it seems to be treated as a literal string when autospanLine is true.

For example, if we have

@CsvRecord(separator="\\s+", autospanLine=true)

and we have defined three string @DataField fields, and we have a line of input like this:

     field1 field2 field3a field3b

then the third field value will be

    "field3a\s+field3b"

Looking at the code in BindyCsvDataFormat.java it seems that this is because in some cases the separator string is treated as a literal string, not a regex. For example, this also seems to be true in some cases in the unquoteTokens method.