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 * Copyright (c) 2017 Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim, Germany (http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/)
 *
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package de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.winter.model.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVWriter;
import de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.winter.processing.Processable;

/**
 * 
 * Super class for CSV writers.
 * 
 * @author Oliver Lehmberg ([email protected])
 *
 */
public abstract class CSVFormatter<RecordType> {

	public abstract String[] getHeader();

	public abstract String[] format(RecordType record);

	/**
	 * Writes the data set to a CSV file
	 * 
	 * @param file
	 * @param dataset
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public void writeCSV(File file, Processable<RecordType> dataset) throws IOException {
		CSVWriter writer = new CSVWriter(new FileWriter(file));

		String[] headers = getHeader();
		if (headers != null) {
			writer.writeNext(headers);
		}

		for (RecordType record : dataset.get()) {
			String[] values = format(record);

			writer.writeNext(values);
		}

		writer.close();
	}

}