[GitHub] [bookkeeper] fantapsody opened a new issue #2311: Support to decode metadata in the API that list ledgers

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fantapsody opened a new issue #2311: Support to decode metadata in the API that list ledgers
URL: https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/issues/2311
 
 
   **FEATURE REQUEST**
   
   1. Please describe the feature you are requesting.
   
   The current list ledgers API output the metadata in a serialized binary format, which is not friendly to human operators and external tools. For example:
   ```bash
   curl 'localhost:8080/api/v1/ledger/list?print_metadata=true'
   ```
   
   ```json
   {
     "0" : "BookieMetadataFormatVersion\t3\n(\b\u0001\u0010\u0001\u0018��\u0006 �\u0007(\u00032\u0011\n\r10.0.0.9:3181\u0010\u00008\u0003B\u0000H\u0001`\u0000"
   }
   ```
   
   2. Indicate the importance of this issue to you (blocker, must-have, should-have, nice-to-have).
      Are you currently using any workarounds to address this issue?
   This is a should-have feature, otherwise, all eternal tools rely on this API have to deserialize the metadata by themselves, which is much harder than to parse a plaintext JSON object.
   
   3. Provide any additional detail on your proposed use case for this feature.
   
   Add a parameter such as `decode_meta`, and output the ledger metadata in decoded format when the parameter presents and the value of it is 'true'.

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