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[pwildani]

I've written a rudimentary DF raws parser. It's to the point where it can do basic checks like missing ]'s, duplicate definitions, and very limited checking for tags that don't belong in the current [OBJECT] scope.

Examples:

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$ $DFCONFIG/config_file.py raw/objects/item_weapon.txt
raw/objects/item_weapon.txt: 22 toplevel objects


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$ $DFCONFIG/config_file.py raw/objects/item_weapon.txt /tmp/item_weapon_copy.txt
raw/objects/item_weapon.txt: 22 toplevel objects
/tmp/item_weapon_copy.txt:5: [ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP]: ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP: defined both here and raw/objects/item_weapon.txt:5

And, after editing item_weapon_copy.txt a little:

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$ $DFCONFIG/config_file.py /tmp/item_weapon_copy.txt
/tmp/item_weapon_copy.txt:6: Tag is not closed before next [

And typo-ing it a bit more:

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$ $DFCONFIG/config_file.py /tmp/item_weapon_copy.txt     
/tmp/item_weapon_copy.txt:5: [ITEM_WEPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP]: Unknown top-level tag: [ITEM_WEPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP]

My eventual goal is a tool to assist in merging mods together at a more conceptual level than a text-based merge (shades of modbase!), but it's still far from usable for that. It can preserve comments and formatting though.

It's entirely within the scope of this project to check references to other objects, like reagents, products, and body parts. But noone's done that yet. You could be the first!

The code's at: http://github.com/pwildani/dfconfig
It requires python3.

[Untelligent]

So what does this do that the game's error log doesn't?

[pwildani]

Tells you about a missing ], with the file and actual line number instead of just a largely useless:

Unrecognized Creature Token: [TILE

And it does it in seconds rather than taking several minutes for a regen.

It does nothing really significant automatically yet, but I've used it to do a few bulk changes like a global SPEED /= 10 to make things run a bit faster at low FPS without distorting relative creature speeds *too* much and also to confirm that I've merged some mods together without obvious errors.

[Untelligent]

And it does it in seconds rather than taking several minutes for a regen.

"Smaller" worlds can gen in seconds too.

The missing ] finder sounds useful, though.

[Deon]

Also, if I am right, it checks the top-level tags like ITEM_WEPON.

Sounds really useful, because in case of multiple errors it takes a lot of time to check files with standard search tools.