[NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed?

[Mark Prosser via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 2025-03-20 09:23, jeffm--- via NANOG wrote:
> Yes, all of this, but it's probably worth noting that there, at least in
> the past, have been some JunOS management cli commands that just ran a
> shell command and dumped the output, therefore not supporting "| display
> json". A lot of the NTP commands used to be this way, though I think in
> later releases they've updated that to support the json display on them.
> Are there other commands that still do this?  I'm personally not aware of
> anything, but it's posslbe.
>
> Additionally, that static transform into JSON from XML results in some
> really horrendous json to work with. It is workable, but it's not fun.
> This only applies to state data, the json rendering of config info "show
> config ... | display json" is as you would expect. There is a config
> switch that purports to output "compact" json for state commands, but it
> generates (usually) invalid json (doesn't put lists into "[...]").

I've noticed this as well. When I'm working with the piped outputs, I 
typically prefer xml & then utilize `xmltodict` and `jsonata` to get 
something workable for my use case.

Warm regards,

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Mark Prosser
// E: mark () zealnetworks ca
// W: https://zealnetworks.ca
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