[jira] [Commented] (CLOUDSTACK-1875) Add JSON output into cloudmonkey

["Ryan Lei - Taiwan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ryan Lei - Taiwan commented on CLOUDSTACK-1875:
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Hi, should this feature be committed to the 4.1 branch, as well?
The 4.1 release note says "Tabular or JSON output with filtering of table columns," but this feature does not work in the 4.1.0 source code or git 4.1.
                
> Add JSON output into cloudmonkey
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-1875
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1875
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) 
>          Components: Cloudmonkey
>    Affects Versions: 4.1.0, Future
>            Reporter: Justin Grudzien
>            Assignee: Justin Grudzien
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: newbie, patch
>   Original Estimate: 504h
>  Remaining Estimate: 504h
>
> Data in JSON format is very easy to read for large data sets. Presently, cloudmonkey supports tabular or line based output and looking at large output tends to be problematic. By adding JSON output with filtering, a user can more easily process and consume data. The following items should make cloudmonkey data more easily consumable:
> 1. Need to format empty return messages with proper JSON messaging.
> 2. Need to standardize JSON output messaging.
>     A. Add return code [Error|Success] to all calls.
>     B. Add called API verb.
> 3. Count is not decreased in output set when filtering completely eliminates a result.
> 4. JSON printing needs to be implemented manually to support colors. Right now json.dumps() pretty prints the output and changing the keys to support colors is problematic.
> 5. Color tagging needs to be added to JSON printing.
> 6. Error messages need to have proper JSON formatting.
> 7. Make color a passable option to a command instead of a config parameter. (i.e. list users account=grudzien color=true)

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