README.md

code2yaml

A tool to extract metadata from code and export as yaml files

configure code2yaml

To use the tool, you need to provide a config file code2yaml.json.

Here is a simple code2yaml.json.

{
  "input_paths": ["./azure-sdk-for-java"],
  "output_path": "./output",
  "exclude_paths": ["./azure-sdk-for-java/azure-samples"],
  "language": "java"
}

• input_paths: an array of input paths.
• output_path: output path
• exclude_paths: an array of exclude paths. Code in the paths wouldn't be extracted metadata.
• language: it now supports cplusplus, java.

Note

all the paths(path in input_paths, exclude_paths or output_path) are either absolute path or path relative to code2yaml.json

The above sample indicates that we need code2yaml to extract metadata from all code under azure-sdk-for-java and save the results(metadata files which end with .yml) into folder output, except for code under folder azure-sdk-for-java/azure-samples. The folder structure is like below:

Folder  
|   code2yaml.json   
|
+---azure-sdk-for-java
|   ...
|   +---azure-samples
|
|---output

run code2yaml

1. build the solution. open cmd shell. build.cmd
2. code2yaml.exe code2yaml.json