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If you need to do anything more interesting with json from the command line I have found the jq tool to be especially useful:

http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

For, example, here is how one might use it to interact with the nova keypairs api:

https://github.com/vishvananda/openstack-examples/blob/master/keypair.jq

Vish

On Jul 31, 2013, at 4:00 PM, "Mellquist, Peter" <peter.mellquist at hp.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> There are a few ways of doing this but I have used curl then pipe the results through a python JSON pretty print tool. This formats the JSON for easily dropping into API docs.
>  
> curl ( some Openstack request with JSON output )    | python –mjson.tool
>  
> Hope this helps,
> Peter.
>  
>  
>  
> From: Paul Michali [mailto:pcm at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:41 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][API Doc] Easy way to generate JSON output for doc?
>  
> Hi!
>  
> I'm writing API doc pages for VPNaaS and was wondering if there are any tools/scripts to make it easy to generate the needed JSON result output for various operations?
>  
> It looks like I can do the neutron command with --verbose to get unformatted JSON output. Should I do that and then reformat the output (or is there way to do that easier)?
>  
> I did try to use json.loads() on the RESP: output, but it threw an ValueError "Expecting property name: line 1 column 1 (char 1)"
>  
> Ideas?
>  
> PCM (Paul Michali)
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