Re: CSV Export Re-arranges Data

On Thursday 01 July 2010, John Gutierrez wrote:
> Wow, am I unhappy.
> 
> I just upgraded from 4.3.5 to 4.4. After exporting (CSV) my contacts
> from the "migrated" addressbook and running all of my shell scripts
> to create html pages, I discovered that the Data was all JUMBLED!

What do you mean by "all jumbled"? Is there data from different contacts 
in the same line? Or are just the (complete) lines "jumbled"?


> Looking at the 'header' file of the exported files, I discovered that
> indeed, the fields have been substantially moved around.

So the order of the fields that are exported has changed?


> There was no warning that this would happen during the "automatic
> migration process'" which took place when opening the application
> for the first time.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the migration.


> I would consider this a major problem for anyone using csv exports in
> a production environment.  For me, it is a great pain to redo all of
> my shell scripts for my personal use.  Please don't do this again.
> 
> I hope that the other export choices were not so drastically
> affected.

Why do you expect the data to be exported in a certain order? Is this 
documented anywhere? If the order of the contacts in the exported CSV 
file is not documented then you relied on undocumented behavior. 
Undocumented behavior is never guaranteed. I'm sorry, but until now you 
were simply lucky. Depending on undocumented behavior is never a good 
idea.


Regards,
Ingo

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