Easily analyze Bond files without writing custom code.
I've spent enough time looking at application/x-bond-compact-binary files returned by Halo Infinite API, that I thought I'd save myself and others the hassle of reading those manually for quick structural checks. This utility doesn't do much other than output the structure of Bond-encoded files - you still need to do the hard work of converting them to some kind of strongly-type representation, at least for now.
Download one of the available releases and extract the archive. Look for br.exe or br in the folder - that's what you need to read Bond files.
This tool can only read files encoded in Bond format without any additional "wrappers". That is, if the content is wrapped in something else, or is zlib-ed (as an example), you'll need to first clean that up before passing it to br.
Usage:
br [command] [options]
Options:
--version Show version information
-?, -h, --help Show help and usage information
Commands:
parse Parses a Bond file and outputs its structure.
An example command could be something like:
br.exe parse --version 2 --input "C:\example.bin" --output test.txtIf you don't specify the output file, you'll only see the structure output to the console.