ifctrap

A conformance trap suite for IFC readers — in any language, behind a sixty-line bridge.

Status: Alpha
License: MIT
Language: Python · any
Tests: 215

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/aec-platform/ifctrap.git

Not on PyPI yet — this installs from source.

Run

ifctrap run --bridge my-toolkit

IFC's important readers are C++, JavaScript and C#. Requiring a Python binding would quietly exclude most of the field and turn a conformance suite into a Python benchmark, which it is not. So a bridge here is just a program: it takes a file path and a probe, writes one JSON object to stdout, exits zero. Write sixty lines and your toolkit gets scored on every case in the corpus.

What makes it different

Language-neutral by design: the bridge contract is stdin/stdout and an exit code
A corpus of trap cases that separate a reader that parses from a reader that is correct
Results are comparable across toolkits, because every toolkit runs the same probes

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