In my software I want to store some data, that later they will be used. Something like a database to hold data:
Date, source path, destination path, and an array of file names.
Also another table to hold information about ftp connection:
Host, port, username and password
I need to know what methods are available to store and parse these data. I noticed there is a file type called .csv, is this an option for me? And is there any other option?
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I think this depends a lot on how much data you want to store and how you need to access it.
If your application is going to be collecting a lot of structured data, such as user profiles, or product information, ie, if your application is all about a database then, yes as others have commented some sort of SQL database would make sense.
If your needs are more along the lines of just storing some "session" information, maybe like the last state of a GUI form for example, you might want to just serialize the data and write it to a simple text file.
One simple way to do that would be to serialize the data in a human readable format such as JSON and then write the text to a file, and then read it back and deserialize it when you need to restore it from storage.
If this is what you are looking for take a look at gson (from google), it provides a very easy what to convert a java object to JSON and back again.
JSON, is just text, so you can just read and write it to a simple text file.
