On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:55 PM, Robert Mustacchi <r...@joyent.com> wrote:
> On 9/24/14 22:51 , Matthew Ahrens wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Yacine Kheddache < >> yacine.khedda...@alyseo.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know this is an old topic : https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/740 >>> >>> And also that -H argument can help in some cases, also know all the talks >>> around libzfs, libzfs_core… >>> >>> But during the first OpenZFS European Conference in Paris : >>> http://www.meetup.com/OpenZFS-Europe/events/177038202/ >>> >>> We have had pretty nice conversation with users and developers and it >>> seems that all or most can agree on the fact it will be so simpler and >>> cleaner if all zfs / zpool outputs can be jsonify on request (specific arg >>> for this purpose)… >>> >>> So : >>> 1/ did I miss something and you guys have an alternative for this ? >>> 2/ if not, is the community think this is a valuable feature request ? >>> >>> I’m convince this could really help to bring new zfs lovers on board which >>> can contribute with nice addons. >>> >>> The howto (API on top of libzfs libzfs_core or changing commands >>> structures…) are still TBD if the community would like to move forward on >>> the topic ;-) But really think this need to go upstream… >>> >> Sounds like something that could be useful. If you implement this, let me >> know if you need any pointers, or if you'd like to discuss your design >> before you start implementing it. > > Other thing I'd add is that we added an nvlist to JSON output into > libnvpair in illumos and we have some prototype code that does the > parsing back into an nvpair. If that's something you're looking for, I > can get you in touch with folks about that. We've done similar. Now is a good time for collaboration. It would be nice to reach concensus by the OpenZFS conference in early November. The method is sound, the concensus is needed around the nvlist strongly-typed data conversion to/from JSON, which is almost, but not quite, untyped. Or, as I'm often heard lamenting, "JSON numbers are neither integers nor floating point, they are numbers." -- richard _______________________________________________ developer mailing list developer@open-zfs.org http://lists.open-zfs.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
