Cereal

Cereal is a commandline tool that converts between different data-serialization and similar formats.

Supported conversions

	to JSON	to YAML	to TOML
from JSON	👍	👍	👍
from YAML	👍	👍	👍
from TOML	👍	👍	👍

Usage

Input and output file formats can be set explicitly via commandline flags. If that's not the case, cereal will try to guess the file format from the file extension.

cereal [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--from {JSON,YAML,TOML,guess}]
              [--to {JSON,YAML,TOML,guess}] [--version]
              input

positional arguments:
  input                 input file to read serialized data from

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                        output file path to write serialized data to (default:
                        None)
  --from {JSON,YAML,TOML,guess}, -f {JSON,YAML,TOML,guess}
                        input file format (default: guess)
  --to {JSON,YAML,TOML,guess}, -t {JSON,YAML,TOML,guess}
                        output file format (default: guess)
  --version             show program's version number and exit