Note to self: After reviewing this code this evening, I have changed and learnt so much since last laying eyes on this code 3 years ago. Hence, I should revist this and revamp it in Python 3 🙃

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Synopsis

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• Tool to open up various storage formats and to convert between them.
• v0.0.1

Objective

Write a command line tool which:

• shows how you would take some sets of personal data
  • name,
  • address,
  • phone_number
• serialise them/deserialise them in at least 2 formats.
• display it in at least 2 different ways (no need to use a GUI Framework).
• text output/HTML or any other human readable format is fine.

There is no need to support manual data entry - you could manually write a file in one of your chosen formats to give you your input test data.

Write it in such a way that it would be easy for a developer:

• to add support for additional storage formats
• to query a list of currently supported formats
• to supply an alternative reader/writer for one of the supported formats

This should ideally show Object-Oriented Design and Design Patterns Knowledge, were not looking for use of advanced Language constructs.

Provide reasonable Unit Test coverage.

Examples

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• <current_path> > cd <path_to_repo>/src
• python main.py -q
• python main.py -i ../data/personal.xml -r html
• python main.py -i ../data/personal.xml -o ../output/personal_out.json
• python main.py -i ../data/personal.xml

Requirements

• Python 2.7 > installed and python.exe can be found from $PATH

Installation

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download https://github.com/uncojohnco/test-file-handler/archive/develop.zip or clone https://github.com/uncojohnco/test-file-handler.git

1. <current_path> > cd <path_to_repo>/src
2. <path_to_repo>/src > python main.py -h