csonv.js: Fetch and transform CSV data into JSON

Since it’s typed, human readable, and supported darn near everywhere,
JSON is the new hotness for data transport formats.
Unfortunately, many systems don’t expose a JSON API. Relational data is
often represented in the tried and true CSV format.

Paul Engel has introduced
CSONV.js, a JavaScript library
that can consume remote CSV data and transform it to JSON, a more
client-side developer friendly format.

Consider the following delimited files:

# books.csv
id;name;author
integer;string;authors:1
1;To Kill an Angry Bird;1
2;The Rabbit;2
3;Parslet;3
4;The Lord of the Things;2
5;The Michelangelo Code;4

# authors.csv
id;name;written_books
integer;string;books:n:author
1;Harper Lee;
2;JRR Tolkien;
3;William Shakespeare;
4;Dan Brown;

CSONV.js can transform these two relational sources into the following JSON:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "To Kill an Angry Bird",
    "author": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Harper Lee"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "The Rabbit",
    "author": {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "JRR Tolkien"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "name": "Parslet",
    "author": {
      "id": 3,
      "name": "William Shakespeare"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 4,
    "name": "The Lord of the Things",
    "author": {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "JRR Tolkien"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 5,
    "name": "The Michelangelo Code",
    "author": {
      "id": 4,
      "name": "Dan Brown"
    }
  }
]

Be sure and check out the project on
GitHub for complete feature list
and advanced usage info.

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