Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] json_writer: new routines to create data in JSON format

[Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>]

On 6/7/2018 1:24 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:12 AM,  <git@jeffhostetler.com> wrote:
>> Add a series of jw_ routines and "struct json_writer" structure to compose
>> JSON data.  The resulting string data can then be output by commands wanting
>> to support a JSON output format.
>> [...]
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/t/t0019-json-writer.sh b/t/t0019-json-writer.sh
>> @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
>> +test_expect_success 'simple object' '
>> +       cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
>> +       {"a":"abc","b":42,"c":3.14,"d":true,"e":false,"f":null}
>> +       EOF
>> +       test-json-writer >actual \
>> +               @object \
>> +                       @object-string a abc \
>> +                       @object-int b 42 \
>> +                       @object-double c 2 3.140 \
>> +                       @object-true d \
>> +                       @object-false e \
>> +                       @object-null f \
>> +               @end &&
>> +       test_cmp expect actual
>> +'
> 
> To make it easier on people writing these tests, it might be nice for
> this to be less noisy by getting rid of "@" and "\". To get rid of
> "\", the test program could grab its script commands from stdin (one
> instruction per line) rather than from argv[]. For instance:
> 
>      test-json-writer >actual <<-\EOF &&
>          object
>              object-string a abc
>              ...
>          end
>      EOF
> 
> Not a big deal, and certainly not worth a re-roll.
> 

I hadn't thought about doing it that way.  Might be a little easier
to use.  Let me take a look and see if it would be much work to switch.

Thanks
Jeff