📚 API Reference

Welcome to the CSV Standard API reference. This section provides a comprehensive technical breakdown of the classes and interfaces that drive the Standard tier, bridging raw data grids to strongly-typed Unity ScriptableObjects.

Core Architecture Classes

1. CSVRecord

• Namespace: Canley.Utility.CSV.Standard
• Base Class: ScriptableObject
• Role: Represents a single row of data, acting as both a live strongly-typed C# class for your game logic and a background container via its Shadow Dictionary (rawValues) to ensure lossless round-tripping.
• Key Features: Supports slug/natural key identification (recordLabel), surrogate primary keys (id), custom inbound/outbound parsing hooks (OnImportField / OnExportField), and a convenient dictionary indexer (this[string fieldName]).

2. CSVTable<T>

• Namespace: Canley.Utility.CSV.Standard
• Role: The primary orchestrator and controller for your data collections, managing a List<T> where T inherits from CSVRecord.
• Key Features: Handles automated reflection mapping, hard-typed validation gates, polymorphic loading, predicate filtering (GetRecords), live reflection sorting (SortByField), and automated UI spawning (SpawnUI).

Core Interfaces

3. ICSVDisplayable<T>

• Namespace: Canley.Utility.CSV.Standard
• Role: A generic contract acting as the bridge between your data records and your visual interface components.
• Key Features: Ensures prefabs used with the SpawnUI method feature a standardized implementation to automatically receive and display record values (e.g., populating text elements or icons).