[jira] [Comment Edited] (JENA-1032) riot --to-file parameter

["Andy Seaborne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1032?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14901117#comment-14901117 ] 

Andy Seaborne edited comment on JENA-1032 at 9/21/15 6:18 PM:
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Current names:

{{\--output=FMT}} Output in the given format, streaming if possible. Synonyms: {{\--out}} 

{{\--formatted=FMT}} Output, using pretty printing (consumes memory).  Synonyms: {{\--fmt}}, {{\--pretty}}.

{{\--stream=FMT}} Output, using a streaming format. No synonyms.


What suggestions are there for an alternative to {{\--output}}?  While it is not clear how much use of these flags is actually made (they are relatively new), a feature of {{\--output}} is that it is streamed (scales if possible) yet works on any format when small.

Or is there a better name than {{\--to-file}}? {{\--to}}?


was (Author: andy.seaborne):
Current names:

{{--output=FMT}} Output in the given format, streaming if possible. Synonyms: {{--out}} 
{{--formatted=FMT}} Output, using pretty printing (consumes memory).  Synonyms: {{-\-fmt}}, {{--pretty}}.
{{--stream=FMT}} Output, using a streaming format

What suggestions are there for an alternative to {{--output}}?

Or better name for {{--to-file}} (not all named things are files)?

> riot --to-file parameter
> ------------------------
>
>                 Key: JENA-1032
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1032
>             Project: Apache Jena
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: RIOT
>    Affects Versions: Jena 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: file, output
>
> The {{riot}} command line does not have an option to specify the output file to write to, forcing users to use shell redirections, e.g. 
> {code}
> riot file.ttl > file.nt
> {code}
> This comes up as an issue for the Docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/stain/jena/ - as you can't (easily) do {{> file.txt}} as arguments to docker run to do redirections within the Docker container. 
> Lacking an output file parameter also makes it harder to call riot from other programming languages, e.g. called from a Python script.
> The problem is that the {{--output}} parameter (and --out) is already used to specify the output FORMAT rather than the output FILE. Perhaps --to-file ? 
> Suggested use:
> {code}
> riot --output jsonld --to-file /tmp/output.jsonld /tmp/input.ttl
> {code}



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