Strongly typed access to csv in scala?

Question

I would like to access csv files in scala in a strongly typed manner. For example, as I read each line of the csv, it is automatically parsed and represented as a tuple with the appropriate types. I could specify the types beforehand in some sort of schema that is passed to the parser. Are there any libraries that exist for doing this? If not, how could I go about implementing this functionality on my own?

Answer 1

product-collections appears to be a good fit for your requirements:

scala> val data = CsvParser[String,Int,Double].parseFile("sample.csv")
data: com.github.marklister.collections.immutable.CollSeq3[String,Int,Double] = 
CollSeq((Jan,10,22.33),
        (Feb,20,44.2),
        (Mar,25,55.1))

product-collections uses opencsv under the hood.

A CollSeq3 is an IndexedSeq[Product3[T1,T2,T3]] and also a Product3[Seq[T1],Seq[T2],Seq[T3]] with a little sugar. I am the author of product-collections.

Here's a link to the io page of the scaladoc

Product3 is essentially a tuple of arity 3.