Re: libXO-ification - tangent on JSON choices

[David Chisnall]

On 16 Nov 2015, at 21:04, Garance A Drosehn  wrote:
> 
> First let me say that I wish I had more time to contribute to the project,
> but I seem to be caught in variety of long drawn-out hassles in real-life.
> Otherwise I would already know the answer to this question:
> 
> Is there some specification for what JSON is created by the various FBSD
> utilities?  I did not see any discussion of that in the earlier threads
> on this.  I don't mean "what is syntatically correct JSON?", I mean some
> kind of guidelines of what property-names would be used across commands,
> and what values should be for those properties.

There is not, currently.  Until 11.0 is branched, it should be considered to be 
in flux, but after that then we are going to provide backwards compatibility 
(i.e. you can add fields to the JSON, but you can’t remove them).  Before this 
point, it would be good to have some consensus of on what properties should be 
common and what each should be providing, and regression tests for the JSON 
(the XML is isomorphic to the JSON, so probably doesn’t need testing 
separately).

If you want to provide a first draft of some recommendations, they would be 
very welcome,

David

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libXO-ification - tangent on JSON choices

[Garance A Drosehn]

First let me say that I wish I had more time to contribute to the project,
but I seem to be caught in variety of long drawn-out hassles in real-life.
Otherwise I would already know the answer to this question:

Is there some specification for what JSON is created by the various FBSD
utilities?  I did not see any discussion of that in the earlier threads
on this.  I don't mean "what is syntatically correct JSON?", I mean some
kind of guidelines of what property-names would be used across commands,
and what values should be for those properties.

I came across the following project while watching a series of videos
on youtube.  I think I started out watching something about Clojure, or
ruby, or d-lang, and ended up at this:

   http://jsonapi.org/
   http://jsonapi.org/format/

And I must admit I haven't even taken the time to read the whole spec,
but what I did read seemed interesting.  It doesn't cover much, so I'd
expect a spec for freebsd command outputs would need to be more detailed.
Is there such a spec already written up, at least in a rough outline?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn= dro...@rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer   or   g...@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY;  USA
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