Strip White Space from Cell Values

ckanext/xloader/loader.py

@@ -169,11 +169,17 @@ def load_csv(csv_filepath, resource_id, mimetype='text/csv', logger=None):
         try:
             with UnknownEncodingStream(csv_filepath, file_format, decoding_result,
                                        skip_rows=skip_rows) as stream:
-                stream.save(**save_args)
+                for row in stream:
+                    for _index, _cell in enumerate(row):
+                        row[_index] = str(_cell).strip()  # strip white space around cell values
+                    stream.save(**save_args)  # have to save inside of the tabulator stream iterator
         except (EncodingError, UnicodeDecodeError):
             with Stream(csv_filepath, format=file_format, encoding=SINGLE_BYTE_ENCODING,
                         skip_rows=skip_rows) as stream:
-                stream.save(**save_args)
+                for row in stream:
+                    for _index, _cell in enumerate(row):
+                        row[_index] = str(_cell).strip()  # strip white space around cell values
+                    stream.save(**save_args)  # have to save inside of the tabulator stream iterator
         csv_filepath = f_write.name
 
         # datastore db connection

ckanext/xloader/parser.py

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ def convert_types(self, extended_rows):
             for cell_index, cell_value in enumerate(row):
                 if cell_value is None:
                     row[cell_index] = ''
+                cell_value = str(cell_value).strip()  # strip white space around cell values
+                row[cell_index] = str(cell_value).strip()  # strip white space around cell values
                 if not cell_value:
                     continue
                 cell_type = self.types[cell_index] if self.types else None