CsvToJson

Allows you to convert your csv files into json. This is my first rust project, so feel free to give any feedback.

Usage

./csv_to_json --input <path> --output <path>

Examples

In this section we will provide some examples of calls and how the application will handle this calls.

using input

./csv_to_json --input document.csv

In this example, only an input path is provided. By default, a converted file will be crated based on the input filename, with an added suffix ".json" - in the provided example document.csv.json will be created.

using input with globbing

./csv_to_json --input *.csv

The application will expend the globbing parameter to a list of all files that match the pattern. The resulting files will be named with an appended ".json" suffix to the original filename.

using input and output

./csv_to_json --input document.csv --output my.json

In this example, input is provided and an explicit output directory. The converted file will be named my.json.

using input with globbing and output

./csv_to_json --input *.csv --output converted

This example uses a globbing list and provides and output. In this case, the output will is a new parent directory for all converted files, respecting the current directory structure of the input path.

build from source

Ubuntu

First you need to install rust (with cargo) if you haven't done that before:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install curl build-essential gcc make -y
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

You can than build the tool with optimizations with the following command:

 cargo build --release

Please note that this will build for your current system architecture. You can find the binary under target/release/csv_to_json.

To build it for a different system architecture, visit the cargo documentation.

In that case, the binary is placed under target//release/csv_to_json

contribute

In case you want to add features, please make sure cargo fmt and cargo clippy --no-deps have no warnings. see build.sh for more details. You can run a benchmark by using cargo bench.

Parallel Execution

When using globbing, all available cpu are used. You can set the amount of parallel execution with RAYON_NUM_THREADS=4 where 4 is the number of threads that should be used.

multiple input files

You can pass multiple files in the input argument.