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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 October 2011 15:55, Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Robert Collins
> <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Its my belief that we will still have *enough* greppability, and the
>> benefits of easier extensions to the oops format will outweigh the
>> downsides.
>
> My concern isn't the greppability, but just general readability. Not
> everyone will have a system setup to render an OOPS to something
> readable. I just had the pleasure of being handed a raw OOPS from ISD
> and just trying to read raw JSON is painful but doable.

 jsonlint --format <whatever |less

is pretty good.

> Reading raw
> BSON will be impossible. People are not going to write their renderer
> until *after* they have adopted the OOPS system, and people are not
> going to adopt the OOPS system if they can't make use of the OOPS
> reports.

something along the lines of

  python -c 'pprint(bson.decode(sys.stdin.read()))'

ought to be decent.

m