On 2025-03-20 09:23, jeffm--- via NANOG wrote:
Yes, all of this, but it's probably worth noting that there, at least in the past, have been some JunOS management cli commands that just ran a shell command and dumped the output, therefore not supporting "| display json". A lot of the NTP commands used to be this way, though I think in later releases they've updated that to support the json display on them. Are there other commands that still do this? I'm personally not aware of anything, but it's posslbe.
Additionally, that static transform into JSON from XML results in some really horrendous json to work with. It is workable, but it's not fun. This only applies to state data, the json rendering of config info "show config ... | display json" is as you would expect. There is a config switch that purports to output "compact" json for state commands, but it generates (usually) invalid json (doesn't put lists into "[...]").
I've noticed this as well. When I'm working with the piped outputs, I typically prefer xml & then utilize `xmltodict` and `jsonata` to get something workable for my use case. Warm regards, -- Mark Prosser // E: mark@zealnetworks.ca // W: https://zealnetworks.ca