CSV

Configure POB to write procurement opportunities to a comma separated values (CSV) file.

Last Updated: 27 May 2022 • Page Author: Jillur Quddus

Overview

A comma separated values (CSV) file is a delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values. This page provides instructions on how to configure POB to write procurement opportunities to a local CSV file.

For further information regarding CSV files, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values.

Setup

To configure POB to write procurement opportunities to a local CSV file, we simply need to update POB's Application Configuration. To do this, open src/main/resources/application.yml in the pob-configuration Maven module in your preferred text editor or IDE, enable the native CSV publisher and provide a path to the local CSV file (note that if this file does not exist then POB will automatically create it) as follows:

publishers:
    - id: csv
      enabled: true
      publisherClass: ai.hyperlearning.pob.data.publishers.csv.CsvPublisher
      properties:
        path: /home/myuser/pob.csv

Deployment

You are now ready to deploy POB to your chosen target environment (for example a self-managed environment, or to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure cloud computing platforms respectively). Once successfully deployed, POB will append procurement opportunities to the given CSV file.