Add support for schema.ini files

[williamscraigm]

Some applications use the schema.ini file to define the schema, would be good to be able to generate these with this code. Specification can be found here

[timwis]

Hi @williamscraigm, thanks for the suggestion. I'm not familiar with schema.ini - can you give a couple of examples that use it? A couple other folks have suggested JSON Table Schema this week. Would that help?

[williamscraigm]

Schema.ini is used in Microsoft technologies where CSVs are accessed through the main ODBC/OLEDB database stack. So there are many applications that do this. One example I'm not affiliated with would be Tableau. I'm interested because the application I work on, ArcGIS, uses Schema.ini files but we have our own read implementation of the standard and don't rely on MS code for this.

[timwis]

Oh, now that's interesting. I work at the City of Philadelphia, and we use ArcGIS (and dabble with Tableau) as well. This looks doable, but I"ll have to find some example files.