Yet Another Packet Parser

Introduction

Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP) is a parser for quiz bowl packets written in C#. Some of its features are

• Converts packets in a docx or HTML file to JSON or HTML
• MODAQ can read the JSON packets it outputs
• Can convert each packet in a zip file
• Specific error messages that give a line number and text near where the parser failed

You can try out a simple demo of the parser here.

Usage

Command-line program

The command line program takes in a docx file and writes it to another file (by default, JSON)

YetAnotherPacketParserCommandLine.exe -i C:\qbsets\packet1.docx -o C:\qbsets\packet1.json

If you want to output it to an HTML file, set the format to html

YetAnotherPacketParserCommandLine.exe -i C:\qbsets\packet1.docx -o C:\qbsets\packet1.json -f html

To see the list of all flags, run

YetAnotherPacketParserCommandLine.exe --help

Library

YAPP comes with a C# library that is consumable through Nuget. You need to get the stream to the file and set the right compiler options, then call PacketConverter.ConvertPackets. For example, to convert a packet to HTML, you can use something like

IPacketConverterOptions packetCompilerOptions = new HtmlPacketCompilerOptions()
{
    StreamName = "packet1.html",
    PrettyPrint = options.PrettyPrint
};

IEnumerable<ConvertResult> results;
using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("C:\\qbsets\\packet1.docx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
{
    results = await PacketConverter.ConvertPacketsAsync(fileStream, packetCompilerOptions);
}

ConvertResult compileResult = outputResults.First();
if (!compileResult.Result.Success)
{
    Console.Error.WriteLine(compileResult.Result);
    return;
}

File.WriteAllText(options.Output, compileResult.Result.Value);

Note that the method can take in a zip file too, and it will return all of the packets it attempted to parse.

Development

Requirements:

• .Net 6 SDK
  • If using Visual Studio, you need at least Visual Studio 2017.5
  • Nuget packages should be automatically downloaded by running dotnet build or through dotnet restore