On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 17:04:19 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > On a Thursday in 2024, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 23:40:19 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > > > Some earlier versions of json-c format empty elements differently. > > > Run the tests who use the pretty formatting for readability and > > > diffability through a function that unifies the output. > > > > Hmm so for test/output stability IMO it'd be better to fix the output > > inside virJSONValueToString(..., true) (so when we're prettifying). > > > > This would cover all existing instances in the tests, but also all > > future XMLs. Additionally it'd unify the output of prettified JSON we > > have e.g. in 'virsh qemu-monitor-command --pretty'. > > > > > > Too bad that it basically requires duplicating the output string which > > makes me think twice whether it's really worth doing. > > > > What do you think? > > > > I don't think the duplication is worth it. And we don't really guarantee > stability of the pretty formatting.
Hmm, yeah. This is mostly whether it makes sense to prevent potential spurious CI failures in case we happen to add a JSON output file which would break in any other output path. Debugging that might not be obvious to people who didn't see the function. As said: > > > > Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <[email protected]> > >
