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/**

* Copyright (C) 2020 EDIT

* European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy

* http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

*

* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

* See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

*/

package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.app.pesi.merging;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader;

/**

 * Base class for PESI merge classes.

 *

 * @author a.mueller

 * @since 20.01.2020

 */

public abstract class PesiMergeBase {

    protected static List<List<String>> readCsvFile(String fileName){

        List<List<String>> result = new ArrayList<>();

        try {

            CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(fileName), ';');

            String[] row;

            while ((row = reader.readNext()) != null){

                result.add(Arrays.asList(row));

            }

            reader.close();

        } catch (IOException e1) {

            e1.printStackTrace();

            return null;

        }

        return result;

    }

    protected boolean isBlank(String str) {

        return StringUtils.isBlank(str);

    }

}