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Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App
April 20, 2024, 9:43 p.m. |
Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net
Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App
Kelly Brazil - also the author of jc, the neat CLI tool that converts the output of common Unix utilities such as dig into JSON - provides some useful do's and don'ts for adding JSON output as an option to a command-line tool.
Kelly recommends defaulting to arrays of flat objects - or newline-delimited objects - and suggests including an "unbuffer" option for streaming tools that discourages the OS from buffering …
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