Conversion between types - is ABIF the base for all conversions?

[masiarek]

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[masiarek]

conversions between formats - do we need to convert first to ABIF - or we plan direct conversions between formats?

Illustration - 3 Candidates and 2 ballot

Columns:
A, B, C
5, 3, 1
4, 2, 5

ABIF:
A/5, B/3, C/1
A/4, B/2, C5

Format "two enter characters" separate the next ballot
A = 5
B = 3
C = 1

A = 4
B = 2
C = 5

[robla]

The ABIF tool is uses an internal JSON model as its conversion format. That format: ".jabmod". ".jabmod" takes its letters from the following:

• "J" is for "json"
• "ab" is for "abif"
• "mod" is for "model"

The idea behind converting to/from .jabmod is to make it so that programmers who are more comfortble building internal data structures can dump/convert to .jabmod, rather than having to serialize the output in .abif format (and write a new parser).

.jabmod isn't well specified yet, unfortunately. I'm hoping to define the model as I write a tool that converts .abif to all sorts of other formats. Does that make sense?