votable-cli 0.3.0

Command-line to convert IVOA VOTables in XML, JSON, YAML and TOML

votable-cli or VOTCli

A command-line to read and convert VOTables from/to XML, JSON, TOML and YAML.

Status

The library this CLI is based on is in an early stage of development. We are (reasonably) open to changes in the various format, e.g.:

• we could flag attributes with a '@' prefix
• we could use upper case elements tag names
• we could remove the 's' suffix in elements arrays
• we could change the pos_infos name for something else
• ...

More testing is required, especially the bit type and arrays. Please, provide us with VOTable examples!

To-Do list

• Support CDATA in TD tags
• Use the iterator to implement streaming transformations between DATATABLE/BINARY/BINARY2.
• Also implement streaming conversion to CSV

Install

From pypi for python users

VOTable cli is available in pypi, you can thus install the vot executable using pip:

pip install votable-cli
vot --help

Debian package

Download the last votable-cli_vxx_yyy.deb corresponding to your architecture (x86_64_musl has the most chances to fit your needs) from the github release page.

Install the .deb by clicking on it or using the command line:

sudo dpkg -i votable-cli_vxx_yyy.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Then you can use the tool:

vot
man vot

You can uninstall using, e.g.:

sudo dpkg -r $(dpkg -f votable-cli_vxx_yyy.deb Package)

Pre-compile binaries for MacOS, Linux and Windows

Download the last vot-vxx_yyy.tar.gz corresponding to your architecture from the github release page. You probably want ot use:

• Linux: vot-vxx-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
• MacOS: vot-vxx-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
• Windows: vot-vxx-.zip

WARNING: for linux, use musl instead of gnu (high chances of uncompatibility in the latter case)

The tar contains a single executable binary file.

tar xzvf vot-vxx-yyy.tar.gz
./vot

Compile from source code

Install rust (and check that ~/.cargo/bin/ is in your path), or update the Rust compiler with:

rustup update

Clone the votable lib rust project:

git clone https://github.com/cds-astro/cds-votable-rust

Install from using cargo:

cargo install --path crates/cli

Help message

> vot --help
Command-line to convert IVOA VOTables in XML, JSON, YAML and TOML

Usage: vot [OPTIONS] <INPUT_FMT> <OUTPUT_FMT>

Arguments:
  <INPUT_FMT>   Format of the input document ('xml', 'json', 'yaml' or 'toml')
  <OUTPUT_FMT>  Format of the output document ('xml', 'xml-td', 'xml-bin', 'xml-bin2', 'json', 'yaml' or 'toml')

Options:
  -i, --input <FILE>   Input file (else read from stdin)
  -o, --output <FILE>  Output file (else write to stdout)
  -p, --pretty         Pretty print (for JSON and TOML)
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version

Example

> time vot xml xml -i VII.vot > xml.1.vot
real	0m0,009s
user	0m0,001s
sys 0m0,009s

> time vot xml toml --pretty -i VII.vot | vot toml json | vot json xml > xml.2.vot
real	0m0,022s
user	0m0,018s
sys	0m0,012s

> diff xml.1.vot xml.2.vot

License

Like most projects in Rust, this project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.