JSON input / output for CLI utilities

[Andrew Walker]

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:15 AM Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org> wrote:

> Am 28.05.21 um 17:10 schrieb Andrew Walker via samba-technical:
> > Should we have version strings for all the JSON output generated by
> > utilities?
>
> yes please.
>
> -slow
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I was thinking of something like this:
```
root@:/usr/ports/net/samba # net --json groupmap add data='{"nt_name":
"smbuser", "gid": 1000}'
{"version": {"major": 1, "minor": 0}, "groupmap": [{"nt_name": "smbuser",
"sid": "S-1-5-21-3928159180-3161166842-2405926743-1005", "gid": 1000,
"group_type_int": 2}]}
```

Basically, have the json-input variety for adding a new groupmap entry
print what actually got added in JSON on stdout. It's probably better
because scripts may send incomplete information, but may benefit from
knowing what SID they received.