On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
> currently madison.cgi (and it's rmadison command friend) doesn't emit an
> easy-to-parse output: please enable it. Something like xml, json, yaml,
> whatever
> that's easy from a programming language to parse and understand.
I'd kindly invite you to reconsider that -
as far as this stuff goes, that's much easier for a machine to parse
then JSON, YAML or XML.
However, I can understand why you'd need that, for instance if you
don't want to write your own parser.
It's early-o-clock here, but I whipped up a script in python for you,
that will take stdin from rmadion and translate it to JSON.
Keep in mind, it's early, I don't have coffee and I spent about 4
minutes on this.
If there are bugs, I'll try to fix them when I have some time, but I
can't be supporting this mess.
Debts payable in Scotch.
Find script attached,
Cheers (and good luck)
-Paul
>
> Regards,
> Sandro
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
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--
All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
#define sizeof(x) rand()
:wq
#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import sys
routput = sys.stdin.read().split('\n')
info_order = [
"pkg",
"version",
"suite",
"arches"
]
key_fld = 2 # suite
arch_fld = 3
output = {}
for line in routput:
if line == "":
break;
information = line.split("|")
parse = {}
for i in range(len(info_order)):
information[i] = information[i].strip()
if i == arch_fld:
information[i] = information[i].split(", ")
parse[info_order[i]] = information[i]
output[information[key_fld]] = information
print output
