YetAnotherPacketParser 0.3.0

Yet Another Packet Parser

Introduction

Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP) is a parser for quiz bowl packets written in C#. Some of its features are

• Converts packets in a docx or HTML file to JSON or HTML
• Can convert each packet in a zip file
• Specific error messages that give a line number and text near where the parser failed
• Configurable in how many lines to look ahead, which lets the parser successfully parse packets where some questions are split between multiple lines

Usage

YAPP comes with a C# library that is consumable through Nuget. You need to get the stream to the file and set the right compiler options, then call PacketConverter.ConvertPackets. For example, to convert a packet to HTML, you can use something like

IPacketConverterOptions packetCompilerOptions = new HtmlPacketCompilerOptions()
{
    StreamName = "packet1.html",
    PrettyPrint = options.PrettyPrint
};

IEnumerable<ConvertResult> results;
using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("C:\\qbsets\\packet1.docx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
{
    results = await PacketConverter.ConvertPacketsAsync(fileStream, packetCompilerOptions);
}

ConvertResult compileResult = outputResults.First();
if (!compileResult.Result.Success)
{
    Console.Error.WriteLine(compileResult.Result);
    return;
}

File.WriteAllText(options.Output, compileResult.Result.Value);

Note that the method can take in a zip file too, and it will return all of the packets it attempted to parse.