Description

This tool "traduit" (french for translate) data formats. It was made in the hope to bring serde to the cli (serdi ^^). But that not exaclty what serde is about and I have no affiliation with them so I did not want to namesquat.

Installation

First install the rust toolchain and then execute the following command:

cargo install tradaf

Usage example

Prettify (or minify) some data format for ease of reading (resp: compact and have less data to save/transfert)

tradaf json json --pretty < simple.json 

Litterally transcode between data formats

tradaf ron yaml < examples/standard.ron

Transcode into JSON so we can use jq, do some transformations and then transcode again into another format for viewing

tradaf RON json < examples/gameConfig.ron | jq .key_bindings | tradaf Json yaml

TODOS

• Implement all data formats, or at least the one that expose a serde serializer or deserializer.
  • [-] Bencode
    • Deserialization
    • Serialization
  • BSON
  • CBOR
  • [-] DBus (not sure it is working, but it compile…)
  • DynamoDB
  • Envy (deserialization only)
  • Envy store (deserialization only)
  • FlexBuffer
    • The Serializer and Deserializer exposed does not work with serde-transcode.
  • [-] GVariant => See DBus: the same crate propose both
  • HJSON
  • JSON
  • [-] JSON5
    • Deserialization
    • Serialization
  • https://github.com/Lucretiel/kaydle
  • S-Expressions (lisp)
  • Pickle
    • Test properly both way
  • [-] Query String (URL)
    • Deserialization
    • Serialization
  • [-] MessagePack
    • Deserialization
    • Serialization
  • RON
  • TOML
  • YAML
  • …
• Add tests for each serializer and each deserializer (at least one)
• Check if crates have features that we should enable/disable
  • zvariant looks to include async runtime by default
• Check my notes for each data format and open an issue on the crates to point problem/present my project and ask for help
• Add proper error handling (find a mentor to explain me propper error management: struct, enum, … and then use anyhow/this_error if needed)