> On Jul 8, 2023, at 8:43 AM, Miklosovic, Stefan <stefan.mikloso...@netapp.com> > wrote: > > If we are providing CQL / JSON / YAML for couple years, I do not believe that > the argument "lets not break it for folks in nodetool" is still relevant. CQL > output is there from times of 4.0 at least (at least!) and YAML / JSON is > also not something completely new. It is not like we are suddenly forcing > people to change their habits, there was enough time to update the stuff to > CQL / json / yaml etc ...
What % of Cassandra users are using 4.0+? Operators who upgrade to 4.0 and beyond may still use their existing scripts. Therefore keeping things stable is important. Until nodetool can support JSON as output format for all interaction and there is a significant adoption in the user community, I would strongly advise against making breaking changes to the CLI output. Dinesh
