We have several tools that produce a representation of SBP in JSON format.
Particularly, we have a native binary tool sbp2json, which is released as an
Ubuntu binary (for example, the libsbp 2.7.1 release). Since this tool is
Haskell based, it can be compiled and utilized on any platform that
Haskell supports.
For other platforms, we have a Python version of the sbp2json tool, which allows
a user to simply run pip3 install sbp on any platform that supports Python.
The user can then invoke the tool with Python's "module as a script" feature
(PEP 338), for example:
socat tcp:<piksi_ip_addr>:55555 | python -m sbp2json(On some platforms, this Python tool is accelerated with native code, and has performance that's comparable to the Haskell tool.)
The libraries here are generated using JSON Schema in combination with the
QuickType tool to injest the output of sbp2json and produce "native" objects
which allow users to fully utilize whatever type checking their language provides.
This also enables "developer assistance" technologies like IntelliSense for
exploring SBP message types during development.
See javascript/README.md for a quick usage example. Also see HOWTO.md for information on how to update these definitions if needed.