Read data from file or stdin

[pawamoy]

I'm wondering if this is possible to feed data to pydeps instead of letting it read it from the source files. I developed a dependency analyzer tool myself (shameless plug) and I would like to feed its output to pydeps to generate the graphs 🙂

I didn't see such options in the README, but there is an "intermediate" format description. I think I can easily add a pydeps format output to my tool. How would I then feed it to pydeps?

[thebjorn]

The --show-deps flag will ouput the result of the dependency analysis. The output is something like (very abridged):

   "pydeps.arguments": {
        "bacon": 1,
        "imported_by": [
            "__main__",
            "pydeps.cli"
        ],
        "imports": [
            "pydeps.pycompat"
        ],
        "name": "pydeps.arguments",
        "path": "c:\\srv\\lib\\code\\pydeps\\pydeps\\arguments.py"
    },
    "pydeps.cli": {
        "bacon": 1,
        "imported_by": [
            "__main__",
            "pydeps.depgraph",
            "pydeps.dot",
            "pydeps.dummymodule",
            "pydeps.pydeps"
        ],
        "imports": [
            "pydeps",
            "pydeps.arguments",
            "pydeps.pycompat"
        ],
        "name": "pydeps.cli",
        "path": "c:\\srv\\lib\\code\\pydeps\\pydeps\\cli.py"
    },

There is currently no functionality to start with/import this format, but it seems like a useful feature. The relevant lines from pydeps.py makes me believe that it would be relatively easy to do as well:

    dep_graph = py2depgraph.py2dep(trgt, **kw)

    if kw.get('show_deps'):
        cli.verbose("DEPS:")
        pprint.pprint(dep_graph)

    dotsrc = depgraph_to_dotsrc(trgt, dep_graph, **kw)

We should probably define the format to be json to make such a feature useful (and specify a jsonschema, https://json-schema.org/, to make it extra useful).

I don't have the time to do something like this until well after the holidays, but I'm to include it if anyone wants to create a PR.

[pawamoy]

Great, thank you for your anwser. I'll play with depgraph_to_dotsrc and see if I can send a PR with some "import" command/flag.