Structured output

Chip Marshall chip at 2bithacker.net
Wed Jun 21 18:36:19 CEST 2017


On 2017-06-21, Darren O'Connor <mellow.drifter at gmail.com> sent:
> I currently use the unix socket to communicate with bird. the issue is that
> the data I get back is unstructured text. I have quite a bit of code
> parsing all that data into usable structs.
> 
> Would it not be possible to add the ability to request structured data
> back? i.e. receive a response with the data encoded in json, protobuf, or
> even xml.

Something like libxo support would be pretty cool, https://github.com/Juniper/libxo

That'd provide text, XML, JSON, and HTML output.

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