[asterisk-dev] Formatting options for CLI output

[Nir Simionovich]

Hi All,

 

  Well, per Michael's response on JIRA, I'm moving this discussion to the
mailing list. 

 

  Here's the thing - almost anyone who's built a large scale Asterisk
platform had used either
Nagios or Icinga (or other) to monitor it. Normally, what you would to
monitor Asterisk would 
be to either use the shell to issue 'asterisk -rx' commands and parse the
output. Or connect
to the manager, issue a similar command and parse the output again. 

 

  Now, while regular expressions do the job right - I believe that adding
the ability to format
the CLI output to a specific format can really be helpful. For example, on
JIRA I've submitted
a small patch that would enable to reformat the output from "sip show peers"
only XML or 
JSON. This can now be easily be parsed from the outside using built-in
scripting languages, 
such as PHP, Python, etc - thus, providing a new means of integrating with
the Asterisk CLI
at ease. 

 

  Initially, I'm thinking of adding this ability for the "summary" lines of
various CLI commands.
But later on, enabling it for each of the CLI commands - that produces some
operational 
output. For example, imagine outputting the "core show channels concise"
output into a JSON
array - man, that would really be something. 

 

  Michael claims that the CLI is the wrong place to put it - I don't
disagree with that. Question
be, what would be the right place to put this kind of functionality? 

 

Kind Regards,

  Nir Simionovich

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