Model format conversion

Textrude is normally used to output text but when processing structured files such as Json or Yaml, it's sometimes useful to be able to write them back out in that format.

The Textrude namespace offers some useful methods for this:

• to_json - convert an object tree to a JSON string representation
• to_yaml - convert an object tree to a YAML string representation
• to_csv - convert an object tree to a CSV string representation
• to_line - convert an object tree to a set of lines

Source format	to_json	to_yaml	to_csv	to_line
json	full support	full support	arrays of flat objects	arrays of primitives
yaml	full support	full support	arrays of flat objects	arrays of primitives
csv	full support	full support	full support	no support
line	full support	full support	no support	full support

Example

Input

{{
    object1 = { a :"value of a1", b:"value of b1"}
    object2 = { a :"value of a2", b:"value of b2"}

    objectArray =[object1,object2]

"JSON:
"
    objectArray | textrude.to_json
" 
-----------------------------------
YAML:
"
    objectArray | textrude.to_yaml
" 
-----------------------------------
CSV:
"
    objectArray | textrude.to_csv
}}

Output

JSON:
[
  {
    "a": "value of a1",
    "b": "value of b1"
  },
  {
    "a": "value of a2",
    "b": "value of b2"
  }
] 
-----------------------------------
YAML:
- a: value of a1
  b: value of b1
- a: value of a2
  b: value of b2
 
-----------------------------------
CSV:
a,b
value of a1,value of b1
value of a2,value of b2