bafi

Convert JSON, XML, CSV, YAML, BSON and MT940 into any text format with templates.

One small command-line program for Windows, macOS and Linux. Read a file or a pipe, describe the output with a Go template, get JSON, XML, CSV, HTML, SQL, a SOAP request - anything that is text.

bafi -i orders.xml -t '?{{toJSON .}}'                              # XML to JSON
bafi -i users.csv -d ';' -t '?{{toJSON .}}'                        # CSV (semicolon) to JSON
curl -fs https://example.com/api/users | bafi -f json -t '?{{toXML .}}'   # REST response to XML
bafi -i sales.json -t report.tmpl -o report.html                    # HTML report from a template

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Recipes

Step-by-step, tested examples for common tasks: XML to JSON · JSON to XML · CSV to JSON · JSON to CSV · XML to CSV · REST to SOAP · SOAP to JSON · HTML report · SQL INSERTs from CSV · MT940 to CSV · Merge several files · more

Key features

• Input: JSON, BSON, YAML, CSV (any delimiter), XML and MT940 bank statements, from a file or standard input; several files of different formats can be merged into one output.
• Output: whatever the template produces. 60+ template functions for math, dates, strings and conversions, plus your own in Lua.
• Errors point at the file, line and column, with a hint how to fix them.
• Encode data as TOON for LLM prompts, or ask OpenAI about your data (experimental).
• Try it in the browser without installing anything.

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