Default values

[GeoNicol]

How can I add default values to my csv?

[ryu1kn]

Hi @GeoNicol , default field values? Do you want to explain how you want to write the code and desirable output?

[GeoNicol]

let's say we have these headers header: [ {id: 'name', title: 'NAME'}, {id: 'lang', title: 'LANGUAGE'} ] and my records:

const records = [ {name: 'Bob', lang: 'French, English'}, {name: 'Mary', lang: 'English'}, {name:'Foo'} // This guy doesn't have language ];

I'd love to be able to set a default value for 'lang' so it doesn't show up empty in my csv

[ryu1kn]

Hmm... I think that's something we can do outside of the library. I want to keep the library functionality small and focused.

Can you do something like this?

const defaultValues = {lang: 'Japanese'}
const finalRecords = records.map(record => Object.assign({}, defaultValues, record))

csvWriter.writeRecords(finalRecords)

[GeoNicol]

Thank you for this, I haven't thought about it.

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 4:04 AM Ryuichi Inagaki notifications@github.com wrote:

Hmm... I think that's something we can do outside of the library. I want to keep the library functionality small and focused.

Can you do something like this?

const defaultValues = {lang: 'Japanese'}const finalRecords = records.map(record => Object.assign({}, defaultValues, record)) csvWriter.writeRecords(finalRecords)

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[ryu1kn]

No worries! 👍