Rust UXF Library

Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) is a plain text human readable optionally typed storage format. UXF is designed to make life easier for software developers and data designers. It directly competes with csv, ini, json, toml, and yaml formats. One key advantage of UXF is that it supports custom (i.e., user-defined) types. This can result in more compact, more readable, and easier to parse data. And in some contexts it may prove to be a convenient alternative to sqlite or xml.

For details of the Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) supported by this library, see the UXF Overview. (Alternative link to UXF Overview.)

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Commmand Line tool

• uxf this can read UXF files (optionally gzip compressed) and lint and output UXF files (optionally gzip compressed; optionally replacing imports and dropping unused ttypes). It can also compare two UXF files for equality or equivalence. (For a full diff, format the two files with the same options, and use a standard diff tool.)

Changes

• 0.21.0 Improved error messages & testing.
• 0.20.0 uxf now does linting and comparing; pretty printing complete.
• 0.16.0 More progress towards pretty printing: but at the moment only compact output works (along with parsing of course).
• 0.15.0 Changed uxf CLI to use subcommands: can now do compare, format, and lint (so dropped redundant uxfcmp).
• 0.14.0 Implemented uxfcmp.
• 0.13.0 Cleanups.
• 0.12.0 Parser does everything including imports.
• 0.11.0 Parser does everything except imports; can output unfriendly output.
• 0.2.0 Now use Value::Null rather than Option<Value> since this better represents UXF data.
• 0.1.0 Started.