This library building Awkward Arrays using Kaitai Struct API for Awkward using C++/STL.
1. Write a .ksy file for your custom file format. Refer to the Kaitai User Guide for more details.
Here, we take an example of animal.ksy
meta:
id: animal
endian: le
license: CC0-1.0
ks-version: 0.8
seq:
- id: entry
type: animal_entry
repeat: eos
types:
animal_entry:
seq:
- id: str_len
type: u1
- id: species
type: str
size: str_len
encoding: UTF-8
- id: age
type: u1
- id: weight
type: u2git clone --recursive https://github.com/ManasviGoyal/kaitai_struct_awkward_runtime.git
cd kaitai_struct_awkward_runtime
git checkout ManasviGoyal/test
git submodule update --init
cd kaitai_struct_compiler
sbt package
cd ../
./kaitai-struct-compiler -t awkward --outdir src-animal example_data/schemas/animal.ksy
pip install .
awkward-kaitai-build src-animal/animal.cpp -b build
Note:
awkward-kaitai-build [-h] [-d DEST] [-b BUILD] fileoptions:
-h, --help: shows help message-d DEST, --dest DEST: explicitly specify a destination for the build shared library.-b BUILD, --build BUILD: explicitly specify a build location.
python
import awkward_kaitai
animal = awkward_kaitai.Reader("./src-animal/libanimal.so") # pass the path of the shared file
awkward_array = animal.load("example_data/data/animal.raw")
print(awkward_array.to_list())[{'animalA__Zentry': [{'animal_entryA__Zstr_len': 3, 'animal_entryA__Zspecies': 'cat', 'animal_entryA__Zage': 5, 'animal_entryA__Zweight': 12}, {'animal_entryA__Zstr_len': 3, 'animal_entryA__Zspecies': 'dog', 'animal_entryA__Zage': 3, 'animal_entryA__Zweight': 43}, {'animal_entryA__Zstr_len': 6, 'animal_entryA__Zspecies': 'turtle', 'animal_entryA__Zage': 10, 'animal_entryA__Zweight': 5}]}]
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