Ceylon2Json - Ceylon CLI-Tool to generate ceylon classes from json file

Simple tool which can generate ceylon classes from single deeply-nested json file.

Examples you can find in examples directory

Installation

Module is not published to ceylon-herd yet, and has only local installation instructions.

Requirenments

• git
• JDK8 (Ceylon 1.3.3 not working with JDK version >8)
• Ceylon 1.3.3
• ant >= 1.9

You can install jdk, ceylon and ant via SDKMAN

Instructions

Clone and enter project

git clone https://github.com/qdzo/json2ceylon json2ceylon
cd json2ceylon

Two main installation methods

• as ceylon module
• as ceylon CLI plugin

Ceylon default installation (publish to USER - local ceylon-repo)

ant publish

Installation as ceylon plugin

ant install-plugin

Usage

Usage vary on installation method, and every method has it's strong and weak points.

• Default installation has adantages in help message and cmd options, but requires full module name and named-arguments
• Plugin installation provides more obscure help message, but has more short command

Ceylon default installation usage

json2ceylon - utility, that generates ceylon classes from given json file.
Usage:
   ceylon run ru.qdzo.ceylon.json2ceylon --classname=ClassName --inputfile=file.json --outdir=gen [-d -e]
Available parameters:
  --classname      (-c) - class name of json root object
  --inputfile      (-f) - file with json content
  --outdir         (-o) - directory for generated ceylon classes
  --externalizable (-e) - create externalizable class with embedded json parsing/emitting
  --debug          (-d) - print debug information

Ceylon plugin usage

  ceylon json-2-ceylon [--externalizable] input-file output-dir classname

  Example:  ceylon json-2-ceylon file.json out_dir \"RootClassName\"

Licence

Distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.