public Person Parse(string data, DataMeta meta)
{
var record = data.Split(meta.Delimiter);
var person = new Person();
try
{
person.LastName = record[meta.Fields["lastname"]].Trim();
person.FirstName = record[meta.Fields["firstname"]].Trim();
person.Gender = ValidateGender(record[meta.Fields["gender"]]);
person.DateOfBirth = Convert.ToDateTime(record[meta.Fields["dateofbirth"]]);
person.FavoriteColor = record[meta.Fields["favoritecolor"]].Trim();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
//we should probably throw a custom exception here.
throw new PersonParserException("Invalid Person raw data", e);
//we should handle a bad record here
}
return(person);
}
public DataFile()
{
Meta = new DataMeta();
Items = new List <T>();
Errors = new List <DataError>();
}