[Libguestfs] [PATCH] builder: translate more user-visible strings

[Pino Toscano]

On Friday 06 December 2013 14:50:08 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:58:27PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > OTOH, that makes me think whether virt-builder shouldn't have some
> > kind of porcelain/XML/JSON/CSV/etc output for --list to ease its
> > parsing, as it could be translated and changed anytime (like done
> > above). Good idea? If so, which format?
> 
> First of all cannot change the existing format, but we can certainly
> add a flag to choose an alternate format.  cf. 'qemu-img info' has a
> flag that lets you select between "human" and "json".

Yes, that's one of the things I had in mind, adding a new output mode 
for --list aside the current one. We could just mimic qemu-img then, 
with --format=json|human (with human being the default one providing the 
current output).

> I have no strong opinions about the format to use.  One which doesn't
> require any external library, but since this is output rather than
> input we probably don't need an external library.

libguestfs has libyajl as JSON parsing library so theoretically it could 
be optionally used as well. But yeah, virt-builder could it do without.

/me adds to low-priority TODO

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Pino Toscano