add a script to convert xml documentation into json

doc/xmldoc2json.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+import sys
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+import json
+
+def parseClass(data):
+    dictCls = dict(data.attrib)
+    dictCls['brief_description'] = data.find("brief_description").text.strip()
+    dictCls['description'] = data.find("description").text.strip()
+    dictCls['methods'] = []
+    for m in data.find("methods"):
+        dictCls['methods'].append(parseMethod(m))
+    dictCls['signals'] = []
+    for s in (data.find("signals") if data.find("signals") is not None else []):
+        dictCls['signals'].append(parseMethod(s))
+    dictCls['constants'] = []
+    for c in (data.find("constants") if data.find("constants") is not None else []):
+        dictCls['constants'].append(parseConstant(c))
+    dictCls['properties'] = []
+    for m in (data.find("members") if data.find("members") is not None else []):
+        dictCls['properties'].append(parseProperty(m))
+    dictCls['theme_properties'] = []
+    for thi in (data.find("theme_items") if data.find("theme_items") is not None else []):
+        dictCls['theme_properties'].append(parseProperty(thi))
+    return dictCls
+
+def parseMethod(data):
+    dictMethod = dict(data.attrib)
+    dictMethod['description'] = data.find("description").text.strip()
+    dictMethod['return_type'] = data.find("return").attrib["type"] if data.find("return") is not None else ""
+    if "qualifiers" not in dictMethod:  dictMethod["qualifiers"] = ""
+    dictMethod["arguments"] = []
+    for arg in data.iter('argument'):
+        dictMethod["arguments"].append(parseArgument(arg))
+    return dictMethod
+
+def parseArgument(data):
+    dictArg = dict(data.attrib)
+    if "dictArg" in dictArg: dictArg.pop("index")
+    dictArg["default_value"] = dictArg["default"] if "default" in dictArg else ""
+    if "default" in dictArg: dictArg.pop("default")
+    return dictArg
+
+def parseConstant(data):
+    dictConst = dict(data.attrib)
+    dictConst["description"] = data.text.strip()
+    return dictConst
+
+def parseProperty(data):
+    dictProp = dict(data.attrib)
+    dictProp["description"] = data.text.strip()
+    return dictProp
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) >=2 :
+        tree = ET.parse(open(sys.argv[1], 'r'))
+        classes = {}
+        for cls in tree.getroot():
+            dictCls = parseClass(cls)
+            classes[dictCls['name']] = dictCls
+        jsonContent = json.dumps({"classes": classes, "version": "2.1.3"}, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+        print(jsonContent)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+