[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFCORE-418) Input/Output Formats Should Be Standard Formats (json/yaml/etc)

Input/Output Formats Should Be Standard Formats (json/yaml/etc) --------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-418 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-418 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Enhancement Components: CLI Environment: RHEL 6.4, x86_64 Reporter: Chris Pitman Assignee: Alexey Loubyansky Labels: automation, cli, configuration_management, json The purpose of the CLI is to improve automation for administrators, but the format used for data is a non-standard format that cannot be easily parsed or generated by any language. The format is *really* close to json, but with enough deviation to make munging it a pain: replace hash rockets (=>) with colons, undefined with null, and key value pairs ("(a => b)") with hashes ("{a : b}"). Going in the opposite direction requires some sort of cleverness to determine what is a key-value pair, which is not fun. The CLI should support both output and input in a standard format, so that the above hoops do not have to be jumped through. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to the jboss cli 2. Execute "/:whoami" Actual results: { "outcome" => "success", "result" => {"identity" => { "username" => "$local", "realm" => "ManagementRealm" }}, "response-headers" => {"process-state" => "reload-required"} } Expected results: { "outcome": "success", "result": {"identity": { "username": "$local", "realm": "ManagementRealm" }}, "response-headers": {"process-state": "reload-required"} }