Example

The code snippets below demonstrates how the fromCsv built-in function can be used populate a collection of Nurse object instances:

Related model objects

persistent object Clinic {
    string name;
}
 
persistent object Nurse {
	string first_name;
	string last_name;
 
	@ManyToOne
	Clinic clinic;
}
 
object UploadedFile {
    blob data;
}

Unit function using fromCsv

 
 Nurse[] extractNurses(UploadedFile f) {
    return Nurse:fromCsv(f.data);
}

Example CSV file

 first_name,last_name,clinic.name
Beatrice,Malherbe,Sonop Clinic
Pieter,Potgieter,Somerset Clinic