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Looks very much like a bug (double json encoding). File a bug on launchpad
against python-neutronclient.

On Sep 30, 2016 05:10, "Bill Nerenberg" <bill.nerenberg75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> When I run neutron -f json in the command below, the pools value is quoted
> so I cannot use it with JSON parsers like jq
>
> For example, this is neutron's problematic output [1] (see the pools line)
>
> $ neutron lbaas-loadbalancer-show ef315cff-1d0a-4327-93c6-e9bf7e544e2d -f
> json
> {
>   "description": "",
>   "admin_state_up": false,
>   "tenant_id": "1bcf7ba13bcb496196d72f481bfebb5c",
>   "provisioning_status": "ACTIVE",
>   "vip_subnet_id": "d02c8267-30be-4cdc-aa4a-a7c1ca6504b8",
>   "listeners": "",
>   "vip_address": "10.0.2.160",
>   "vip_port_id": "07227a77-1afe-466b-9d54-20e8637fc2b0",
>   "provider": "f5networks",
>   "pools": "{\"id\": \"1b792ace-0cbf-47cc-a3d5-2140c570ccee\"}",
>   "id": "ef315cff-1d0a-4327-93c6-e9bf7e544e2d",
>   "operating_status": "ONLINE",
>   "name": "test-lbaasv2"
> }
>
> Which triggers an error in jq (or other tools)
>
> neutron lbaas-loadbalancer-show ef315cff-1d0a-4327-93c6-e9bf7e544e2d -f
> json | jq ".pools.id"
> jq: error: Cannot index string with string
>
>
> If instead I use the followin JSON without the double quotes it works just
> fine
>
> $ cat myjson
> {
>   "description": "",
>   "admin_state_up": false,
>   "tenant_id": "1bcf7ba13bcb496196d72f481bfebb5c",
>   "provisioning_status": "ACTIVE",
>   "vip_subnet_id": "d02c8267-30be-4cdc-aa4a-a7c1ca6504b8",
>   "listeners": "",
>   "vip_address": "10.0.2.160",
>   "vip_port_id": "07227a77-1afe-466b-9d54-20e8637fc2b0",
>   "provider": "f5networks",
>   "pools": {"id": "1b792ace-0cbf-47cc-a3d5-2140c570ccee"},
>   "id": "ef315cff-1d0a-4327-93c6-e9bf7e544e2d",
>   "operating_status": "ONLINE",
>   "name": "test-lbaasv2"
> }
> $ cat myjson | jq ".pools.id"
> "1b792ace-0cbf-47cc-a3d5-2140c570ccee"
>
> Questions, questions...
>
> Is it intentional the output of [1] or is it a bug? If it is not a bug and
> it is intentional... how is it expected we should be parsing it?
>
> Comments would be greatly appreciated
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
>
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