[Freeswitch-users] Just curious, is there any standard for FS API command output?

[Avi Marcus]

Most commands with lists you can specify "as json" or "as xml" just like
from fs_cli...

-Avi

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Rafal Gwizdala <rafal.gwizdala at gmail.com>wrote:

> Michael, there's no real issue here, I was just trying to parse the output
> of several commands and was a little surprised that there's no common,
> automatically-parsable format like json or xml (some commands support xml,
> some csv only and there are totally custom formats too). But you're right,
> there are much worse data formats than plain text so i won't complain about
> it anymore.
>  R
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>wrote:
>
>> Not sure what the real issue is here. In all programming langs you have
>> functions that return various formats - you simply learn to use them. In FS
>> the APIs are easy to use. Many of them support different output formats
>> which gives you choices. You even have ESL which abstracts away a lot of
>> the boring and tedious work.
>>
>> Are you facing a particularly difficult programming challenge? The gang
>> here loves to solve problems, so ask away.
>>
>> -MC
>> On Jul 31, 2013 1:03 PM, "Rafal Gwizdala" <rafal.gwizdala at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Guys, I'm communicating with FS through an inbound event socket and
>>> almost every command has some different standard for output data structure.
>>> Some responses are CSV, some (like 'sofia status profile internal reg') use
>>> a  'vertical name:value format , i've seen also different formats I don't
>>> remember now. What's worse, the event returned after executing a command
>>> (SOCKET_DATA api/response) doesn't indicate if the command succeeded or
>>> not. Some commands are nice enough to return +OK for success but not all of
>>> them.
>>> Am I missing something here? Are there more programmer-friendly methods
>>> of getting command results from FS?
>>> Thanks
>>> RG
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