tidas-tools 0.0.40

tidas-tools

TianGong TIDAS Tools User Guide

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This toolkit is used for conversion and validation of TianGong TIDAS and eILCD/ILCD data formats.

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1. Introduction

This toolkit contains these independent tools:

• TIDAS and eILCD Data Format Conversion Tool
• External LCA Format Import Tool
• TIDAS and eILCD/ILCD Data Validation Tool
• TIDAS and eILCD Data Export Tool

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2. TIDAS and eILCD Data Format Conversion Tool Usage

(1) Installation Instructions

# Install this toolkit
pip install tidas-tools

(2) Tool Functionalities

This tool supports mutual conversion between the following two data formats:

• TIDAS data format → eILCD data format (default mode)
• eILCD data format → TIDAS data format

(3) Command-line Arguments

Argument	Short form	Description
--help	-h	Display help message
--input-dir	-i	Directory containing data files to be converted (note: this directory must directly contain the data files, not their parent directory)
--output-dir	-o	Output directory for converted data (the program will automatically generate the complete schema-compatible directory structure)
--to-eilcd		Convert data from TIDAS format to eILCD format (default mode)
--to-tidas		Convert data from eILCD format to TIDAS format
--verbose	-v	Enable verbose logging

(4) Usage Examples

# Convert TIDAS data to eILCD format
tidas-convert --input-dir <TIDAS_data_directory> --output-dir <eILCD_output_directory> --to-eilcd

# Convert eILCD data to TIDAS format
tidas-convert --input-dir <eILCD_data_directory> --output-dir <TIDAS_output_directory> --to-tidas

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3. External LCA Format Import Tool Usage

(1) Current Scope

tidas-import is the staged entry point for importing external LCA formats into TIDAS and optionally ILCD/eILCD. The current implementation provides CLI dispatch, source format detection, .zolca rejection, machine-readable conversion reports, and minimal validated adapters for openLCA JSON-LD, EcoSpold 1, SimaPro CSV, EcoSpold 2, and openLCA process XLSX.

Current source status:

• openLCA JSON-LD zip/directory: minimal import to TIDAS and ILCD/eILCD
• EcoSpold 1 XML/zip: minimal import to TIDAS and ILCD/eILCD
• SimaPro CSV block format: minimal import to TIDAS and ILCD/eILCD
• EcoSpold 2 .spold/zip: minimal import to TIDAS and ILCD/eILCD
• openLCA process XLSX: minimal import to TIDAS and ILCD/eILCD

.zolca is intentionally out of scope.

Imported JSON-LD actors and sources are written as TIDAS contacts and sources. Source units from EcoSpold, SimaPro CSV, and process XLSX inputs are propagated into generated unit groups and flow properties when no explicit reference data is available.

When downstream AI/import workers need to handle each TIDAS process independently, the importer writes per-process bundles by default. The normal <output_directory>/tidas package is still written unchanged; the importer also writes <output_directory>/process-bundles/<process_uuid>/ folders containing the process JSON plus referenced flow, flow property, unit group, contact, and source JSON files. --process-bundles-dir <dir> overrides the bundle location, and --no-process-bundles disables bundle output.

The expert mapping CSV is disabled by default because large imports can produce very large field-level mapping files. Use --write-mapping-csv to write <output_directory>/mapping.csv.gz.

(2) Usage Example

tidas-import --input <source_file_or_dir> --output-dir <output_directory> --detect-only
tidas-import --input <source_file_or_dir> --output-dir <output_directory> --target both --validation-jobs 0
tidas-import --input <source_file_or_dir> --output-dir <output_directory> --no-process-bundles
tidas-import --input <source_file_or_dir> --output-dir <output_directory> --write-mapping-csv

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4. TIDAS and eILCD/ILCD Data Validation Tool Usage

(1) Tool Functionalities

This tool validates whether TIDAS JSON data or eILCD/ILCD XML data complies with the packaged schema standards. TIDAS JSON validation uses a compiled schema fast path and falls back to complete error collection when a schema issue is found.

(2) Command-line Arguments

Argument	Short form	Description
--help	-h	Display help message
--input-dir	-i	Directory containing data to validate
--verbose	-v	Enable verbose logging
--data-format		Input data format to validate: tidas, ilcd, or eilcd (default: tidas)
--jobs		Number of parallel validation worker processes; use 0 for all CPU cores

(3) Usage Example

# Validate TIDAS data format
tidas-validate --input-dir <TIDAS_data_directory> --data-format tidas

# Validate eILCD/ILCD XML data format
tidas-validate --input-dir <eILCD_data_directory> --data-format ilcd

# Validate large packages with all CPU cores
tidas-validate --input-dir <TIDAS_data_directory> --data-format tidas --jobs 0

5. TIDAS Export Tool Documentation

(1) Tool Functionalities

This tool exports data records in either TIDAS or eILCD format. It also optionally downloads supplementary files and bundles them into a final zip archive.

(2) Command-line Arguments and Environment Variables

Parameter	Short	Description
--help	-h	Display help information
--to-tidas	-	Export data in TIDAS format (default)
--to-eilcd	None	Export data in eILCD format
--input-dir	-i	Input directory containing files to export
--output-zip	-z	Output path for the zip file
--env-file	-e	Path to .env file containing DB and AWS credentials
--skip-external-docs		Skip downloading external supplementary files
--to-tidas		Export in TIDAS format (default option)
--to-eilcd		Export in eILCD format (mutually exclusive)
--db-user		Database username
--db-password		Database password
--db-host		Database host
--db-port		Database port (default: 5432)
--db-name		Database name
--aws-access-key-id		AWS access key ID
--aws-secret-access-key		AWS secret access key
--aws-region		AWS region
--verbose	-v	Enable verbose logging

Credentials can also be set via environment variables (defaults to the .env file in the current directory):

DB_USER=
DB_PASSWORD=
DB_HOST=
DB_PORT=5432
DB_NAME=postgres
AWS_REGION=
AWS_ENDPOINT=

(3) Usage Example

# Export records to TIDAS format and produce a ZIP archive.
tidas-export -i <TIDAS_input_directory> -z <TIDAS_ZIP_File> --to-tidas

# Export records to eILCD format without downloading supplementary files
tidas-export -z <eILCD_ZIP_File> --to-eilcd --skip-external-docs

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6. Log File Information

Both data conversion and validation tools will automatically generate execution logs. The log file name is:

tidas-{function_name}.log

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7. Development Environment Setup and Contribution Guide

If you wish to participate in development, you can set up your environment following these steps:

(1) Ubuntu System Environment Preparation

# Update repositories and install software management tools
sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common

# Add the official PPA repository for the latest Python version and install Python 3.12
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt install -y python3.12

# Install necessary dependency packages
sudo apt install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev

# Upgrade software packages on the system
sudo apt upgrade

(2) Manage Python Environment with uv

# Install uv (if not already available)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Synchronize dependencies (including development tools)
uv sync --dev

# Activate the virtual environment created by uv (optional)
source .venv/bin/activate

# Run project commands without activating the environment
uv run python src/tidas_tools/convert.py --help

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8. Code Standards and Testing

(1) Code Formatting Tool (black recommended)

# Automatically format code using black
uv run black .

(2) Testing Instructions

To test data conversion and validation functionalities, run the following commands:

# Test converting TIDAS data to eILCD format
uv run python src/tidas_tools/convert.py -i <TIDAS_data_directory> -o <eILCD_data_directory> --to-eilcd

# Test converting eILCD data to TIDAS format
uv run python src/tidas_tools/convert.py --input-dir <eILCD_data_directory> --output-dir <TIDAS_data_directory> --to-tidas

# Test external LCA format detection
uv run python src/tidas_tools/import_lca/cli.py --input <source_file_or_dir> --output-dir <output_directory> --detect-only

# Test TIDAS and eILCD/ILCD data validation functionality
# Execute automated tests
uv run pytest

# Validate TIDAS data
uv run python src/tidas_tools/validate.py -i <TIDAS_data_directory> --data-format tidas

# Validate eILCD/ILCD data
uv run python src/tidas_tools/validate.py -i <eILCD_data_directory> --data-format ilcd

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9. Automatic Building and Publishing (CI/CD)

This project supports automatic building and publishing. When you push a git tag named with the v<version> format to the repository, it will trigger the workflow automatically. For example:

# List existing tags
git tag

# Create a new tag (e.g., version v0.0.1)
git tag v0.0.1

# Push the newly created tag to the remote repository to trigger automatic workflow
git push origin v0.0.1

Schema and methodology updates on main can also trigger a cross-repository SDK sync into tiangong-lca/tidas-sdk through .github/workflows/dispatch-tidas-sdk-sync.yml.

That automation requires the repository secret TIDAS_SDK_AUTOMATION_TOKEN.

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10. Contribution

We welcome your contributions! You can participate in the project by submitting issues or pull requests.