Json output

[ghost]

Hey,

For the sake of argument is there a way in which I can get json output of the transformed document.

[irobayna]

@rajeshyogeshwar not out of the box as far as I know. This could be an interesting feature

[kputnam]

Yes, you can absolutely implement this, but it's intentionally not included with the library. Have a look at the two files in lib/stupidedi/writer for examples of converting an arbitrary X12 syntax tree to another format (either HTML or serialized X12, both of these are just fancy Strings in the end).

Those two writers traverse any X12 document and format them in a generic way (it works for any grammar, for any edition of X12, etc). Alternatively, if you're targeting a specific X12 grammar you can use the Navigation API to explicitly select the parts of the syntax tree you're interested in for that given grammar. Feel free to file issues if you get stuck somewhere.

I'm hesitant about encouraging you to submit a pull request to add this feature to the library because it will be difficult to solve the problem in general -- there is no standard JSON representation for X12 documents, so your patch might solve your use case but not another person's. However, it would be a good demo for other users to see how to use the library, so I'd happily place it in the notes directory if you want to share it.

[ghost]

Sure, I will start work on it and if I reach my goal will share it with you. Thanks for responses.