Spring Boot + OpenCSV Export Data to CSV Example
Hello everyone, today we will learn how to export and download the data as a CSV file in a Spring Boot project. CSV stands for Comma-Separated-Values and it's a common format for doing a bulk data transfer between systems. For creating and parsing CSV files, we will use OpenCSV 3rd-party library. A little bit of Background Spring Boot Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based Applications that you can "just run". More Info - https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot OpenCSV OpenCSV is an easy-to-use CSV (comma-separated values) parser library for Java. It was developed because all the CSV parsers at the time didn’t have commercial-friendly licenses. Java 8 is currently the minimum supported version. More Info - http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/ Technologies used Java 17 Spring Boot 2.7.0 OpenCSV 5.6 Spring Data JPA H2DB Maven Project directory Maven [pom.xml] A Project Object Model or POM is the fundamental unit of work in Maven. It