Re: [basex-talk] Logging in JSON format

[Christian Grün]

Hi Huib,

> Is it possible to make BaseX generate logs in JSON format?

You can convert BaseX logs to JSON as follows (just an example):

let $day := '2022-11-28'
let $entries := admin:logs($day, true())
let $result := array {
  for $entry in $entries
  return map:merge((
    $entry/@* ! map:entry(name(), data()),
    map:entry('message', data($entry))
  ))
}
return json:serialize($result)

…yields something like…

[
  {
    "message": "bla",
    "user": "admin",
    "time": "13:18:01.982",
    "address": "SERVER",
    "type": "INFO"
  }
]

There is currently no way to choose different log output formats, as too
many BaseX features rely on our standard format.

Hope this helps,
Christian