Converter for openhab-things-channel-xml file into Items-File Format (Python Script)

xml-channel-convert.py

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import sys
import os

# Default-Values
default_xml_file = 'data.xml'
default_channel_scope = 'replace-me'
default_channel_prefix = 'modbus:tcp:device:mydevice'
default_item_prefix = 'MyDevice_'

default_group = '(mygroup)'

# check for filepath and channel-scope as parameter
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    xml_file_path = sys.argv[1]
else:
    xml_file_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), default_xml_file)

# check if channel-scope as parameter is present (and use it)
channel_scope = sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else default_channel_scope

# Check if file exists
if not os.path.exists(xml_file_path):
    print(f"Error: File '{xml_file_path}' not found.")
    sys.exit(1)


# Parase XML-File
tree = ET.parse(xml_file_path)
root = tree.getroot()

# create openHAB Items Configuration
for channel in root.findall('channel-type'):
    item_type = channel.find('item-type').text
    label = channel.find('label').text
    label_val = '\"' + label + '\"'
    description = channel.find('description').text if channel.find('description') is not None else label
    channel_id = channel.attrib['id'].replace('-channel', '')

    # openHAB item-name
    item_name = f"{default_item_prefix}_{label.replace(' ', '')}"

    # Output- please adapt the "<25" or similar values to the longest value of the part (shift right text in same column)
    print(f"{item_type:<25} {item_name:<50} {label_val:<40}  {default_group:<15} {{ channel=\"{default_channel_prefix}:{channel_scope}#{channel_id}\" }}")