WarHub.ArmouryModel library and wham tool

Foundational .NET library for wargame datafile tools, written in C#.

This is the home of the WarHub.ArmouryModel library handling wargame roster and data files. It consists of:

• wham - a CLI tool (Command Line) used to manage, convert and publish datafiles, distributed as .NET Global Tool (.NET SDK v7+ required)
• WarHub.ArmouryModel.Source library provides API to manage and interact with wargaming data files (game systems, catalogues) and rosters.
• WarHub.ArmouryModel.Source.BattleScribe provides convenient methods to load and save BattleScribe XML datafiles.
• WarHub.ArmouryModel.ProjectModel library provides API to operate on wham workspaces (abstraction) and their configuration (.whamproj configuration files).
• WarHub.ArmouryModel.Workspaces.BattleScribe implements project model for BattleScribe format.
• WarHub.ArmouryModel.Workspaces.Gitree implements project model for gitree where directory and file structure is a part of datafile shape, building datafile from massive amounts of tiny files. It's mostly designed to work well with VCS (Version Control Systems) such as git.

All libraries, unless otherwise specifed, target .NET 6.

There are also test projects and WarHub.ArmouryModel.Source.CodeGeneration project which contains code generator used to build .Source library. This code generator uses C# Source Generators.

To install wham command line tool:

1. please install .NET SDK v7 for your platform.
2. In your shell/command line run dotnet tool install wham -g
3. You can check if the tool is available: wham --version should show what version exactly is running.

This will install preview of wham CLI tool in your user-space (not system global), and so it doesn't require root/admin permissions. (Although installation of .NET SDK can).

• converts BattleScribe workspace (xml files: .cat/.catz/.gst/.gstz) into gitree workspace (mutliple small files in directory trees) that behaves with git well.
• publishes BattleScribe format distribution files:
  • .bsr repository distribution package - zip archive containing datafiles (.cat and .gst) and DataIndex index.xml file.
  • index.bsi which is DataIndex index.xml-containing zip archive.
  • index.xml DataIndex.
  • .cat/.gst datafiles
  • .catz/.gstz zipped datafiles

You can always run wham -? or wham -h or wham [action] -? to get help about the tool/action.

The development branch is the main branch. Stable releases are marked via vX.Y.Z tags. This project uses Nerdbank.GitVersioning package that automatically generates version numbers for assemblies and packages from git tree. It won't work if the git clone is shallow or otherwise incomplete.

The library is MIT licensed (license in repo root). Created by Amadeusz Sadowski (@amis92). BattleScribe name is used without permission under fair-use laws.