[Question] is it possible to convert between different file formats?

[s1291]

Hi @ebranlard,

Thank you for building weio. I learned a lot by reading the source code.

I have a question. Many file formats in weio provide classes with methods to read/write specific files, convert them to DataFrame, dataset, etc.

Is it possible to convert between different file formats? For example, reading a TurbSim bts file and save it as a VTK file? or does this conversion need to be done manually?

I checked weio.converters.writeDataFrameToFormat but it converts dataframes only to csv, outb and parquet formats.

Best regards,
s.ouchene

[ebranlard]

Dear @s1291

I indeed would like to have something like that in place but I haven't figured an abstraction yet.

Within converters, we could store a mapping between formats, something like a dictionary, where the key is the Class, and the value is a list of Compatible Class.

I don't really want each fileclass to handle the conversion, and have to load all the possible file format that it could convert to.
Maybe each file reader class could have a clean "create" function, that takes the minimum amount of information needed to create an object of this file type.

At first, If there is something you need, I would recommend writting some converters into the converters file. Later on, we can come up with something cleaner and reuse the code.

I hope that helps,

Emmanuel