HH converters

[de-coder]

If you can get me HH files from the various sites you want to support (I think some sites use different formats and I only play at a couple of places...) and an output format that will get me started.

What would you like to call each position? I see things like MP21 and stuff for full ring games - there must be a better way.

[Talking Poker]

I'll draw up some basic "specs" for you later tonight (and hopefully people will give a lot more inpot into this thread about EXACTLY what they would like to see), but for the positions, I'm thinking:

6 max:
SB
BB
UTG
MP
CO
Button

For full games, we would add:
UTG+1 (between UTG and MP)

and then either convert MP to:
MP1
MP2
MP3

or even add in:
CO-1 instead of MP3. Something like that.

Thoughts? Anyone? Anyone?

[Talking Poker]

Also, I'd be perfectly happy is this started off simple and we expand on it with future revisions (I'm a fairly smart guy and might even be able to do a lot of that myself). But to start, I'd like to see support for:
1. Full Tilt
2. Poker Stars

-Both cash games and tourneys.

That's probably 90% of the hands people post here anyway, these days, but we could add in other sites down the road...

[Nikita]

Ultimate Bet would probably be a good idea. I've seen a few hands posted from there recently, and I play there a bit.

[PShabi]

Why recreate the wheel?

I use for Full Tilt.

works for most others.

I'm sure there are a few others that people like.

[Talking Poker]

Definitely. Those are BY FAR the worst to read unconverted, IMO.

[Talking Poker]

Any progress with this, de-coder?

[de-coder]

I've pulled 2 all-nighters in the past week, so I haven't had a lot of time. I did check the spec on the server so I'm ok on that front. I also have a rough functional design for it (which is really my first step) and I've built a bit of testing code.

I still need a really good idea of what we want the output to look like, but I'm designing the app to separate the HH from the output.

I'll build converters for whatever site we want that will convert the file to standard xml and then I'll run the xml through a stylesheet. That will enable me to add or change a particular sites conversion without changing the output at all. It will also allow me to generate standard output for each site and if we make a design change to the output it will automatically affect all sites. It also means that I'll be able to plug new sites into the converter easily, without having to worry about design.

It would be helpful if people could post HH files for a site and type of game they'd like converted (I only have stars and party myself and those are limited to tourney's at stars and full ring games at party).