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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] alfred: output valid JSON
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The current output format of alfred -r looks like this:

{ "fe:f1:00:00:01:01", "OpenWRT-node-1\x0a" },
{ "fe:f1:00:00:02:01", "OpenWRT-node-2\x0a" },
{ "fe:f1:00:00:03:01", "OpenWRT-node-3\x0a" },

It's not clear how one should parse this as there is no documentation
except the source code.

With my patch, it'll look like this:

{
  "fe:f1:00:00:01:01": "OpenWRT-node-1\u000a",
  "fe:f1:00:00:02:01": "OpenWRT-node-2\u000a",
  "fe:f1:00:00:03:01": "OpenWRT-node-3\u000a"
}

This is JSOΝ which is well documented and thus can be parsed
easily. It's a dictionary with the node's ID as the key and the data
as value.

At Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:39:23 +0800,
Marek Lindner wrote:
>=20
> On Sunday, September 08, 2013 04:56:39 Nils Schneider wrote:
> > The current output format isn't really broken, just tricky to parse.
> > I decided to make it valid JSOΝ as it was already pretty close. This
> > allows parsing with virtually any programming language.
>=20
> Please be more specific about what was broken and how your fix addresses =
the=20
> problem. An example would be nice too.
>=20
> Cheers,
> Marek