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# nix-csv
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Load a csv and use it in your nix as an attribute.
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The challenge here is, that you could -in theory- parse files in nix directly, but nix is really bad at this.
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What we do here, is using [builtins.fromJSON](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/language/builtins#builtins-fromJSON) by just converting the csv file to a json file first.
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Quick summary of the pipeline:
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```
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test.csv -> csv-to-json -> test.json -> readFile -> fromJSON
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```
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See comments in `flake.nix` for how it works.
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Technically this can adapted to any type of data source.
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