On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:18:43PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote: > Crowbar has one or two JSON-parsing wheels, e.g. > > > https://github.com/crowbar/barclamp-provisioner/blob/master/updates/parse_node_data > > https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/blob/master/releases/pebbles/master/extra/json-edit > > which were already invented elsewhere several times. Take a look at > > https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli > > in particular the list of alternatives at the bottom. Even if we keep > the existing wheels, it is worth bearing these superior alternatives > in mind for the future. I looked at a few of those earlier today but I didn't find a good fit for us. Many of them are written in Javascript and depend on node.js (underscore-cli, json-command, json, jsawk, jsonpath, json:select()). I suposed we don't want to pull in dependencies for yet another scripting languange. Additionally a large chunk of them is just of filtering or pretty printing json not for manipulating it.
It's not as if parse_node_data and json-edit implement the JSON parsing themselves. Both are pretty tiny and rely on the json gem to do the heavy lifting (which I guess is more widely used than any of the above mentioned tools). -- Ralf _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list Crowbar@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
