The wiring_list_view added by this slice was only reachable through the GUI,
which meant the one thing worth proving about it -- that it still describes
the project -- could not be checked without a person clicking. This is the
same shape as the existing --export-bom, which reads
element_nomenclature_view, and it makes the view verifiable in CI.
It also makes this slice useful on its own: a from-to wiring list is a thing
people want as a CSV, and it no longer waits on the dialog in the next slice.
There is deliberately an overlap with --export-cables, which produces the same
logical list from the document XML rather than the database. Keeping both is
the point: running them and diffing them is a direct check that the cache and
the document still agree, which nothing else in the codebase can do.
Measured on the example corpus, the two also differ in what they can actually
fill in. Rows carrying any endpoint data:
--export-cables --export-wiring
industrial.qet 0 / 671 541 / 671
m_000.qet 0 / 457 362 / 457
affuteuse_250h.qet 0 / 263 197 / 263
tremie_vibrante.qet 0 / 77 61 / 77
tableau_domestique.qet 58 / 130 104 / 130
Both return a row per conductor; the XML-derived one leaves the component and
terminal columns empty on the older projects, and emits an unresolved "%id"
in its folio column. That is not an argument for removing it -- it carries
columns the view does not, and it is the independent second opinion -- but it
does mean the database path is the one with the data on the projects people
actually have.
The terminal-name columns come back empty on most projects. That is absent
source data, not a loss in transit: tableau_domestique.qet has no terminal
name on 457 of 457 terminals, and industrial.qet stores the "_" placeholder
on 1421 of 1790.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first write-to-project CLI command, aimed at CI / revision workflows:
stamp title-block metadata onto every folio (and the project default),
then save. Each argument is key=value:
qelectrotech --set-titleblock in.qet out.qet revision=B date=today
Standard keys map to the documented title-block fields (title, author,
date, plant, location, revision, version, filename); date=today uses the
current date and an explicit date forces UseDateValue mode; any other key
is stored as a custom title-block field. Assignments are parsed up front
so a malformed one fails before writing.
Addresses the 'saving' side of the CLI-for-scripts request (#162).
Three more read-only command-line tools for verifying connectivity and
cross-reference intelligence (useful for import / migration pipelines):
qelectrotech --export-nets <project.qet> <output.json>
qelectrotech --export-links <project.qet> <output.csv>
qelectrotech --resave <project.qet> <output.qet>
- --export-nets walks Conductor::relatedPotentialConductors() to group
every electrically-connected terminal into a net (potential), following
folio reports and terminal blocks across all folios. Output is JSON:
per net, the wire number and the list of {element, terminal, folio}.
This is the connectivity ground truth.
- --export-links reports each linkable element (master/slave/report/
terminal), its link type and the elements it links to, flagging
masters/slaves with no link as UNRESOLVED. Verifies coil<->contact
cross-references. Verified on examples/industrial.qet: 436 linkable
(76 master, 41 slave, ...), 37 unresolved.
- --resave loads the project and writes its XML back out, so an external
diff can reveal markup QET silently normalises on load
(tolerated-but-invalid XML). Round-trip verified: the re-saved project
reloads with identical diagram/element/conductor counts.
Extends the headless command-line interface with three read-only tools
aimed at validating projects and element libraries (useful for batch
import / migration pipelines):
qelectrotech --info <project.qet> [output.json]
qelectrotech --export-bom <project.qet> <output.csv>
qelectrotech --check-elements <element.elmt | directory>
- --info dumps a structural summary as JSON straight from QET's loaded
model: per-diagram element / conductor counts, page size, and the
number of unconnected ("free") terminals, plus project totals. Because
it uses the real loader it reports what the editor actually sees.
- --export-bom writes a bill of materials (one row per element) as CSV,
querying the project's own element_nomenclature_view (the same source
as the GUI BOM export). updateDB() is called first so the database is
populated in a headless run.
- --check-elements validates one .elmt file, or every .elmt under a
directory (recursively), against the element schema: XML well-formed,
root <definition type="element">, a usable bounding box, and terminal
count. Reports OK / WARN / FAIL per file and a summary; exit code is
non-zero if any file fails. Verified against the full bundled
collection (8483 elements): 0 false failures, agreeing with QET's own
loader (e.g. a negative-height element it tolerates is a WARN, not a
FAIL).
run() is restructured to handle the differing argument arity (info takes
an optional output, check-elements takes a path rather than a project).
Extends the headless command-line export with two CSV outputs:
qelectrotech --export-cables <project.qet> <output.csv> wiring list
qelectrotech --export-wires <project.qet> <output.csv> wire numbers
- --export-cables reuses WiringListExport (one row per conductor).
- --export-wires reuses ConductorNumExport::wiresNum() (distinct wire numbers).
WiringListExport::toCsv() mixed CSV generation with the file dialog and
writing. Extracted the generation into a new const method toCsvString()
that returns the CSV; toCsv() now calls it and writes the result. This
makes the wiring list usable headlessly with no behavioural change to the
GUI export.
Addresses part of the CLI export requests (#162, #309): @pkess specifically
asked to "export all connections as a list".
Implements the long-requested batch/headless export
(bugtracker #171, GitHub #309): render a project's diagrams to files
without opening the GUI.
qelectrotech --export-pdf <project.qet> <output.pdf> one multi-page PDF
qelectrotech --export-png <project.qet> <output_dir> one PNG per diagram
qelectrotech --export-svg <project.qet> <output_dir> one SVG per diagram
main.cpp detects an export request before SingleApplication is created (so the
arguments are not forwarded to a running instance), spins up a plain
QApplication for rendering, and exits with the export's status code.
Rendering reuses Diagram::render() over
BorderTitleBlock::borderAndTitleBlockRect(), the same geometry the GUI
print/export path uses, so output matches the editor. Image files are named
NN_Title.<ext>.
New files: sources/cli_export.{h,cpp}, registered in
cmake/qet_compilation_vars.cmake.
Laurent Trinques