Tracery.Net

.NET port of Kate Compton's Tracery. Now on NuGet!

Minimal example

var grammar = new TraceryNet.Grammar(new FileInfo("grammar.json"));
var output = grammar.Flatten("#origin#");
Console.WriteLine(output);

Where grammar.json is:

{
    "origin": "The #person# was feeling... #mood#",
    "person": ["girl", "dwarf", "cat", "dragon"],
    "mood": ["bashful", "dopey", "happy", "sleepy", "sneezy", "grumpy"]
}

Example outputs:

The dwarf was feeling grumpy.
The girl was feeling sneezy.
The girl was feeling sleepy.
The dwarf was feeling grumpy.
The dragon was feeling dopey.

See TraceryNetExample project for more

Custom modifiers

var json = "{" +
           "    'origin': '#sentence.toUpper#'," +
           "    'sentence': 'hello cat'" +
           "}";

var grammar = new TraceryNet.Grammar(json);
grammar.AddModifier("toUpper", modifier);

var output = grammar.Flatten("#origin#");

Where modifier is something like this:

Func<string, string> modifier = delegate (string i)
{
    return i.ToUpper();
};

Output:

HELLO CAT

YAML

YAML can be used as a source instead of JSON:

--- 
origin: "#sentence#"
sentence: "#greeting# #place#"
place:
  - "world"
  - "galaxy"
  - "universe"
greeting:
  - "Hello"
  - "Hey"
  - "Sup"

Status