Gendiff

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Description

"Gendiff" is a program that determines the difference between two data structures.

Features of the utility:

• Supports different input formats: yaml (yml), json
• Report generation as plain text, stylish and json

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Dependencies

Tool	Version
python	"^3.8.1"
PyYAML	"^6.0"

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Installation

Before installation, make sure that you have Poetry installed.

1. Clone the repository to your computer git clone https://github.com/ratushnyyvm/gendiff.git
2. Go to the project folder cd gendiff
3. Install the program make setup

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Usage

Cli-utility

$ gendiff -h
usage: gendiff [-h] [-f {stylish,plain,json}] first_file second_file

Compares two configuration files and shows a difference.

positional arguments:
  first_file
  second_file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f {stylish,plain,json}, --format {stylish,plain,json}
                        set format of output (default: "stylish")

Library

from gendiff import generate_diff

diff = generate_diff(file_path1, file_path2)
print(diff)

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Demonstration

installation

stylish

gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2
gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2 -f stylish
gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2 --format stylish

plain

gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2 -f plain
gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2 --format plain

json

gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2 -f json
gendiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2 --format json