Hi, I'm working on machine readable output of dmidecode. I added the --json CLI option. You can see my POC here:
https://github.com/jirihnidek/dmidecode/pull/1 Example of output can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/jirihnidek/02c7620a5c2cf06752ccea877b35cc84 As you can see there are no dependencies to any other library, but some information is missing in the output (e.g. handle, DMI type), and there are other issues. I would like to ask if you would be interested adding this to upstream version of dmidecode? I would like to do proper implementation using the json-c library: https://github.com/json-c/json-c This is a small library that is part of most Linux distributions. Could adding dependency on json-c be acceptable? Adding support for machine readable output to dmidecode would be much appreciated, because our tools like subscription-manager [1] (core part of all RHEL) has to parse human readable output of dmidecode and it is sub-optimal. There are other projects trying to parse output of dmidecode, e.g. py-dmidecode: https://pypi.org/project/py-dmidecode/ Thanks in advance Jiri [1] https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager/ -- Jiri Hnidek Senior Software Engineer, Team Candlepin, Red Hat
