conntrack-tools conntrack cli json output option?

conntrack-tools conntrack cli json output option?

[eldon-nfv]

Hi all,
I see some other netfilter tools support json as an output format,
apparently this is done elsewhere with libjansson. Would it be
obvious or a welcome patch to add support to this similar to the
xml output of conntrack -L? Is anyone using an existing tool for this?

I searched this list archives, sorry if I missed previous discussion.

Thanks,
Eldon

Re: conntrack-tools conntrack cli json output option?

[Kerin Millar]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024, at 4:47 PM, eldon-nfv@eldondev.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> I see some other netfilter tools support json as an output format,
> apparently this is done elsewhere with libjansson. Would it be
> obvious or a welcome patch to add support to this similar to the
> xml output of conntrack -L? Is anyone using an existing tool for this?

These days, I think that most would welcome the ability to obtain well-structured JSON output from their tooling. I would suggest looking into libxo, also.

https://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html

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Kerin Millar