# nix-csv

Load a csv and use it in your nix as an attribute.

The challenge here is, that you could -in theory- parse files in nix directly, but nix is really bad at this.
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.

Quick summary of the pipeline:

```
test.csv -> csv-to-json -> test.json -> readFile -> fromJSON
```

See comments in `flake.nix` for how it works.

Technically this can adapted to any type of data source.