cif2bcif BCIF => CIF conversion support

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ Note that since we don't clearly distinguish between a public and private interf
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+
+## [v3.5.0] - 2022-03-25
+
 - Fix issues with bounding-sphere & color-smoothing (mostly for small geometries)
+- Support BCIF => CIF conversion in ``cif2bcif`` CLI tool
 
 ## [v3.4.0] - 2022-03-13
 

README.md

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ and navigate to `build/viewer`
 
     export NODE_PATH="lib"; node build/state-docs
 
-**Convert any CIF to BinaryCIF**
+**Convert any CIF to BinaryCIF (or vice versa)**
 
     node lib/commonjs/servers/model/preprocess -i file.cif -ob file.bcif
 
@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ Or
 
     node lib/commonjs/cli/cif2bcif
 
+E.g.
+ 
+    node lib/commonjs/cli/cif2bcif src.cif out.bcif.gz
+    node lib/commonjs/cli/cif2bcif src.bcif.gz out.cif
+
 ## Development
 
 ### Installation

src/cli/cif2bcif/converter.ts

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function classify(name: string, field: CifField): CifWriter.Field {
 }
 
 export function convert(path: string, asText = false, hints?: EncodingStrategyHint[], filter?: string) {
-    return Task.create<Uint8Array>('BinaryCIF', async ctx => {
+    return Task.create<Uint8Array>('Convert CIF', async ctx => {
         const encodingProvider: BinaryEncodingProvider = hints
             ? CifWriter.createEncodingProviderFromJsonConfig(hints)
             : { get: (c, f) => void 0 };

src/cli/cif2bcif/index.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ async function process(srcPath: string, outPath: string, configPath?: string, fi
     const config = configPath ? JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(configPath, 'utf8')) : void 0;
     const filter = filterPath ? fs.readFileSync(filterPath, 'utf8') : void 0;
 
-    const res = await convert(srcPath, false, config, filter);
+    const res = await convert(srcPath, srcPath.toLowerCase().indexOf('.bcif') > 0, config, filter);
     await write(outPath, res);
 }
 
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ function run(args: Args) {
 
 const parser = new argparse.ArgumentParser({
     add_help: true,
-    description: 'Convert any CIF file to a BCIF file'
+    description: 'Convert any BCIF file to a CIF file or vice versa'
 });
 parser.add_argument('src', {
-    help: 'Source CIF path'
+    help: 'Source file path'
 });
 parser.add_argument('out', {
-    help: 'Output BCIF path'
+    help: 'Output file path'
 });
 parser.add_argument('-c', '--config', {
     help: 'Optional encoding strategy/precision config path',