Tried to parse my 13,000 line private.xml config and got an error

[nikitavoloboev]

I installed karaconv and tried to run it on my private.xml config file.

I got this error:

❯ karaconv -i private.xml -o private.json
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: missing field `appendix`', libcore/result.rs:945:5
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.

Would really love to use this tool to translate my config to Elements. Thank you for any help.

[nikitavoloboev]

Hi @durka, would it be possible to take a look at this?

Would really appreciate it if this parser worked on that file. Thank you.

[durka]

Oh, I missed this. Will try to take a look.

[nikitavoloboev]

Hi @durka, did you get any time to look at yet? I would really appreciate it.

[durka]

Wow, you've got a lot of stuff in there! I don't even know if the new Karabiner-Elements supports all of these features. First step is to parse the file, I guess. Some of this isn't even in the documentation of the private.xml schema. Is this an error? If not, what does it mean to nest like that?

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/1c3acfbe2c30d52bf19cf548d0eb77f2bf91ffaf/karabiner/private.xml#L7506-L7509

[nikitavoloboev]

If not, what does it mean to nest like that?

That was actually an error and I just fixed it. However Karabiner parsed that XML with no errors for me and worked.

The most important part for me to translate and I am not sure if it is even possible in Karabiner is this block.

I was shown how to define this by @tekezo in old Karabiner issue and what it essentially does is make a key a custom launcher key and the nested there represent what happens when I press those keys when I hold the Launcher key.

It would be incredibly nice if @tekezo himself proposed a solution to how one could translate that XML block to JSON in Elements as I am not sure myself.

Also this is very important to as that defines variables. It creates a variable that contains calling of some AppleScript and then I call these variables inside most definitions in the launcher definitions.