json out on cli ?

[gedw99]

Would you be open to adding json and jq json parsing on the CLI ?

https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/pkg/cmdutil/json_flags.go is a decent example of it.

Is allow automation for devs and users, so that alerts can easily be upgraded but also any other automation aspects.

The GitHub CLI example does a nice job os encapsulating it for cobra.

https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/pkg/cmd/project/delete/delete.go#L74 shows how easy it is to add it to a command.

[pomdtr]

yeah this would be nice to have!

I might even be able to reuse the cmdutil package from the github cli

[gedw99]

Yes I would reuse it .. copy / paste

[gedw99]

hey @pomdtr

polite ping ..

If this still on the cards ?

I used that GitHub cmdutils package for a project and it worked well.

[pomdtr]

I did not take the time to add it yet, but it would definitely be useful (especially in the smallweb api command).

[gedw99]

I think it will really help just for usability and automation.

I guess it will help the API code because then the API is calling the CLI and so getting JSON back out ?