writers.text¶
The text writer writes out to a text file. This is useful for debugging or getting smaller files into an easily parseable format. The text writer supports both GeoJSON and CSV output.
Streamable Stage
This stage supports streaming operations
Example¶
{
"pipeline":[
{
"type":"readers.las",
"filename":"inputfile.las"
},
{
"type":"writers.text",
"format":"geojson",
"order":"X,Y,Z",
"keep_unspecified":"false",
"filename":"outputfile.txt"
}
]
}
Options¶
- filename
- File to write to, or “STDOUT” to write to standard out [Required]
- format
- Output format to use. One of “geojson” or “csv”. [Default: csv]
- order
- Comma-separated list of dimension names, giving the desired column order in the output file, for example “X,Y,Z,Red,Green,Blue”. [Default: none]
- keep_unspecified
- Should we output any fields that are not specified in the dimension order? [Default: true]
- jscallback
- When producing GeoJSON, the callback allows you to wrap the data in a function, so the output can be evaluated in a <script> tag.
- quote_header
- When producing CSV, should the column header named by quoted? [Default: true]
- newline
- When producing CSV, what newline character should be used? (For Windows, “\r\n” is common.) [Default: \n]
- delimiter
- When producing CSV, what character to use as a delimiter? [Default: ,]