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DanielT / a2ltool

A tool to edit, merge and update a2l files
Apache License 2.0
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converting a2l files to json #33

Closed red-lac closed 3 months ago

red-lac commented 3 months ago

Dear developer, first of all, thank you for providing such a good a2l tool. This tool is great. Then, I have a request. Can this tool provide the function of converting a2l files to json or xml formats?

DanielT commented 3 months ago

Thanks!

At the moment a2ltool does not export to any other formats. I also don't plan to add such a feature: It is not related to modifying and updating a2l files, and I think it is important to focus on the core use case.

You could 1) take a look at the output of --debug-print. This outputs the al2 data in rust debug format, which is similar, but not quite identical to JSON. However it also dumps the type info from the elf file if you have loaded one. 2) I separated the a2l file loading code into the a2lfile library. You could import it and build your own tool that outputs any format you need.

red-lac commented 3 months ago

alright, thank you very much