dunitconversion 1.0.1

DUnitConversion

Library for D programming language that provides tools for runtime unit conversion.

This is a port of my Qt-based library QUnitConversion which is available here

DUnitConversion stores units as strings grouped by "family" (for example length or temperature). Each family has its own base unit, conversion inside a family is performed by converting through base unit providing conversion from any unit to any other unit in a family. Conversion rules can be added dynamically and/or loaded from JSON-formatted string so you can add your own conversions if needed. An example of an input JSON file is provided in /test/conversion_rules.json.

Note that each unit should have a unique name, as long as conversion is unit name-based.

DUnitConversion supports aliases for unit names, see aliases example below.

Information

Documentation is available here

Author: Dmitriy Linev

License: MIT

Features

• Load unit conversion rules from JSON files
• Support for unit aliases
• Convert values directly
• Bulk convert is supported with linear convert functions (see examples)

Examples

Basic usage:

auto convertor = new UnitConvertor;

// fill the convertor instance with rules
convertor.addConversionRule(ConversionRule("length", "m", "km", LinearFunction(0.001, 0)));
convertor.addConversionRule(ConversionRule("length", "m", "cm", LinearFunction(100, 0)));

// you can convert a single value
double km = convertor.convert(50, "km", "m");   // returns value of a 50 km converted to meters

// or get a linear function that holds conversion from one unit to another
// to apply this conversion to many numbers without finding a conversion each time 
LinearFunction convertFunction = convertor.convert("m", "km");
double [] meters;
// meters is filled here...
double [] kilometers;
foreach (m; meters)
    kilometers ~= convertFunction.y(m);

Aliases:

auto convertor = new UnitConvertor;
 
// load conversion rules from JSON
convertor.loadFromJson(parseJSON(readText("conversion_rules.json")));

// load aliases for unit names from JSON
convertor.loadAliasesFromJson(parseJSON(readText("aliases.json")));

double km;
km = convertor.convert(50, "km", "m");   // returns value of a 50 km converted to meters
km = convertor.convert(50, "km", "meter");  // "meter" is an alias for "m" written in loaded json
km = convertor.convert(50, "km", "meters"); // and "meters" a as well

Package content

Installation

dunitconversion is available in dub. If you're using dub run dub add dunitconversion in your project folder and dub will add dependency and fetch the latest version.