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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+// Example for: *json*, *tvsaver*
+
+// This example demonstrates loading an SPDX json from disk into memory,
+// and then re-saving it to a different file on disk in tag-value format .
+// Run project: go run examplejsontotv.go ../sample-docs/json/SPDXJSONExample-v2.2.spdx.json example.spdx
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	spdx_json "github.com/spdx/tools-golang/json"
+	"github.com/spdx/tools-golang/tvsaver"
+)
+
+func main() {
+
+	// check that we've received the right number of arguments
+	args := os.Args
+	if len(args) != 3 {
+		fmt.Printf("Usage: %v <json-file-in> <spdx-file-out>\n", args[0])
+		fmt.Printf("  Load JSON file <json-file-in>, and\n")
+		fmt.Printf("  save it out to <spdx-file-out>.\n")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// open the SPDX file
+	fileIn := args[1]
+	r, err := os.Open(fileIn)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Error while opening %v for reading: %v", fileIn, err)
+		return
+	}
+	defer r.Close()
+
+	// try to load the SPDX file's contents as a json file, version 2.2
+	doc, err := spdx_json.Load2_2(r)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Error while parsing %v: %v", args[1], err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	// if we got here, the file is now loaded into memory.
+	fmt.Printf("Successfully loaded %s\n", args[1])
+
+	// we can now save it back to disk, using tvsaver.
+
+	// create a new file for writing
+	fileOut := args[2]
+	w, err := os.Create(fileOut)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Error while opening %v for writing: %v", fileOut, err)
+		return
+	}
+	defer w.Close()
+
+	// try to save the document to disk as an SPDX tag-value file, version 2.2
+	err = tvsaver.Save2_2(doc, w)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Error while saving %v: %v", fileOut, err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	// it worked
+	fmt.Printf("Successfully saved %s\n", fileOut)
+}