Re: [libvirt PATCH 03/20] util: json: introduce virJSONStringPrettifyBlanks

A horribly named function for unifying formatting when pretty-printing empty JSON arrays and objects. Useful for having stable test output even if different JSON libraries format these differently. Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/util/virjson.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/util/virjson.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util/virjson.c b/src/util/virjson.c index 57707350da..0edf86cd1c 100644 --- a/src/util/virjson.c +++ b/src/util/virjson.c @@ -1861,6 +1861,40 @@ virJSONStringReformat(const char *jsonstr, return virJSONValueToString(json, pretty); } +/** + * virJSONStringPrettifyBlanks: + * @jsonstr: string to prettify + * + * In the pretty mode of printing, various versions of JSON libraries + * format empty arrays and objects differently. + * + * Unify this to "[]" and "{}" which are used by json-c 0.17 and newer. + * https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/778