Setting metrics for routes currently lead to non-parsable json output. For example:
$ ip link add type dummy $ ip route add 192.168.2.0 dev dummy0 metric 100 mtu 1000 rto_min 3 $ ip -j route | jq parse error: ':' not as part of an object at line 1, column 319 Fixing this opening a json object in the metrics array and using print_string() instead of fprintf(). This is the output for the above commands applying this patch: $ ip -j route | jq [ { "dst": "192.168.2.0", "dev": "dummy0", "scope": "link", "metric": 100, "flags": [], "metrics": [ { "mtu": 1000, "rto_min": 3 } ] } ] Fixes: 663c3cb23103f ("iproute: implement JSON and color output") Fixes: 968272e791710 ("iproute: refactor metrics print") Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <acla...@redhat.com> --- ip/iproute.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ip/iproute.c b/ip/iproute.c index 1669e0138259e..2f9b612b0b506 100644 --- a/ip/iproute.c +++ b/ip/iproute.c @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static void print_rta_metrics(FILE *fp, const struct rtattr *rta) int i; open_json_array(PRINT_JSON, "metrics"); + open_json_object(NULL); parse_rtattr(mxrta, RTAX_MAX, RTA_DATA(rta), RTA_PAYLOAD(rta)); @@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ static void print_rta_metrics(FILE *fp, const struct rtattr *rta) print_rtax_features(fp, val); break; default: - fprintf(fp, "%u ", val); + print_uint(PRINT_ANY, mx_names[i], "%u ", val); break; case RTAX_RTT: @@ -639,6 +640,7 @@ static void print_rta_metrics(FILE *fp, const struct rtattr *rta) } } + close_json_object(); close_json_array(PRINT_JSON, NULL); } -- 2.20.1