Re: iproute2 bug in json output for encap

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:26:03 +0200
Lars Ekman <uablrek@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> Digging a little deeper I see that the double "dst" items will cause
> problems with most (all?) json parsers. I intend to use "go" and json
> parsing will be parsed to a "map" (hash-table) so duplicate keys will
> not work.
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21832701/does-json-syntax-allow-duplicate-keys-in-an-object
> 
> IMHO it would be better to use a structured "encap" item. Something like;
> 
> [ {
>     "dst": "192.168.11.0/24",
>     "encap": {
>         "protocol": "ip6",
>         "id": 0,
>         "src": "::",
>         "dst": "fd00::c0a8:2dd",
>         "hoplimit": 0,
>         "tc": 0
>     },
>     "scope": "link",
>     "flags": [ ]
> } ]
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Lars Ekman

That makes sense, not sure if it would break any existing scripts.
Probably true for ip link as well.