Documentation for writing a new format parser

[willwade]

Hi! Is there any docs on writing a format parser as an input source ? (Update: I see https://github.com/CoughDrop/obf/blob/master/lib/obf/picto4me.rb as in the Readme.. But any further thoughts welcome before I embark on this!)

[whitmer]

Hi Will, docs are sparse at the moment :-/. I'll see if I can make some time add some, but in the mean time you can sort of get an idea by looking at the converters here: https://github.com/CoughDrop/obf/tree/master/lib/obf, for example https://github.com/CoughDrop/obf/blob/master/lib/obf/picto4me.rb. Basically you're going to be parsing your input format however you do that, and then creating a hash/dictionary with specified attributes.

The good news is that the format of the hash is very similar to the JSON format of an obf file, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bnl5neOf9-y53yOAGjd8BzQ7jvAdLhcB6y9Zw7ITYbA/edit.

Anyway, I'll see about making something more formal.

[willwade]

Cool. I'm going to look at how difficult it will be converting a grid 3 file format to off (Something like this as a base: https://github.com/willwade/AAC-Tools/blob/master/Converters/g2Translate/g2translate.py ) . Cheers