[chef] Re: Re: Re: stdout poisoning in knife commands

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Ed Ropple wrote:

> "Parse with JSON" is not a friendly option. It's not a streaming nor a 
> row-based format. -Ftext _is_ a streaming format, but poisons stdout in a 
> way that is antithetical to normal Unix usage.
>  
> I filed an issue describing the issue: 
> https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2980
>  
> -Ed
I replied on the issue. tl;dr, -Ftext isn’t a row-based format either, as you 
can demonstrate with `knife node show NODE -m`. I would be fine with moving 
“diagnostic” messages like that to stderr to make what you’re doing now 
easier, but there’s a limit to what you can accomplish with the “text” 
formatter because first and foremost it’s about presenting data for humans to 
read, which is IMO not feasible to do in a row-based format given the nested 
JSON structures we’re dealing with.


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Daniel DeLeo