On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Richard Elling < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:55 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9/24/14 22:51 , Matthew Ahrens wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Yacine Kheddache < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I know this is an old topic : > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/740 > >>> > >>> And also that -H argument can help in some cases, also know all the > talks > >>> around libzfs, libzfs_core… > >>> > >>> But during the first OpenZFS European Conference in Paris : > >>> http://www.meetup.com/OpenZFS-Europe/events/177038202/ > >>> > >>> We have had pretty nice conversation with users and developers and it > >>> seems that all or most can agree on the fact it will be so simpler and > >>> cleaner if all zfs / zpool outputs can be jsonify on request (specific > arg > >>> for this purpose)… > >>> > >>> So : > >>> 1/ did I miss something and you guys have an alternative for this ? > >>> 2/ if not, is the community think this is a valuable feature request ? > >>> > >>> I’m convince this could really help to bring new zfs lovers on board > which > >>> can contribute with nice addons. > >>> > >>> The howto (API on top of libzfs libzfs_core or changing commands > >>> structures…) are still TBD if the community would like to move forward > on > >>> the topic ;-) But really think this need to go upstream… > >>> > >> Sounds like something that could be useful. If you implement this, let > me > >> know if you need any pointers, or if you'd like to discuss your design > >> before you start implementing it. > > > > Other thing I'd add is that we added an nvlist to JSON output into > > libnvpair in illumos and we have some prototype code that does the > > parsing back into an nvpair. If that's something you're looking for, I > > can get you in touch with folks about that. > Yes will be nice if you guys can share this code. > We've done similar. Now is a good time for collaboration. It would be nice > to > reach concensus by the OpenZFS conference in early November. > > +1 on the fact it is time to collaborate on this topic and I'm convince it will really help the community if it become upstream... > The method is sound, the concensus is needed around the nvlist > strongly-typed > data conversion to/from JSON, which is almost, but not quite, untyped. Or, > as > I'm often heard lamenting, "JSON numbers are neither integers nor floating > point, > they are numbers." > -- richard > Guess we can all exchange and agree on the design first and see who within the community would like to work on the implementation. Happy if this is moving in the right direction instead of all reinventing the wheel in the shadow for their own products... ;-) Yacine
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