backend/director admin states

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CABoVN9AgQu6tv=1UfRLxfgrmuv6+xL-q6cEKjtsO90bw6Zc7CA at mail.gmail.com>
, Dridi Boukelmoune writes:
>On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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>> In message <CAJ6ZYQx3vsFtWeTHpoU+ifgKjPDQv3=sH=c5Q-ZxFqJCU0kPEw at mail.gmail.com>
>> , Guillaume Quintard writes:
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>>>All commands should have a JSON option, I reckon.
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>> Somebody should write more code for it then, I reckon :-)
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>Maybe we should do that the other way around? Have all CLI commands
>reply with a JSON data structure, and CLI consumers like varnishadm,
>varnishtest or varnishd -d be able to output it in plain text (with
>this code centralized in libvarnish and exposed in libvarnishapi).

I thought about that, but didn't move on it, as I didn't want to
write all the code myself ;-)

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