Add "struct json_writer" and a series of jw_ routines to compose JSON
data into a string buffer. The resulting string may then be printed by
commands wanting to support a JSON-like output format.
The json_writer is limited to correctly formatting structured data for
output. It does not attempt to build an object model of the JSON data.
We say "JSON-like" because we do not enforce the Unicode (usually UTF-8)
requirement on string fields. Internally, Git does not necessarily have
Unicode/UTF-8 data for most fields, so it is currently unclear the best
way to enforce that requirement. For example, on Linux pathnames can
contain arbitrary 8-bit character data, so a command like "status" would
not know how to encode the reported pathnames. We may want to revisit
this (or double encode such strings) in the future.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Helped-by: Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we call BUG(), we signal via SIGABRT that something bad happened,
dumping cores if so configured. In some setups these coredumps are
redirected to some central place such as /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern,
which is a good thing.
However, when we try to verify in our test suite that bugs are caught in
certain code paths, we do *not* want to clutter such a central place
with unnecessary coredumps.
So let's special-case the test helpers (which we use to verify such code
paths) so that the BUG() calls will *not* call abort() but exit with a
special-purpose exit code instead.
Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This will become an umbrella program that absorbs most [1] t/helper
programs in. By having a single executable binary we reduce disk usage
(libgit.a is replicated by every t/helper program) and shorten link
time a bit.
Running "make --jobs=1; du -sh t/helper" with ccache fully populated,
it takes 27 seconds and 277MB at the beginning of this series, 17
seconds and 42MB at the end.
[1] There are a couple programs that will not become part of
test-tool: test-line-buffer and test-svn-fe have extra
dependencies and test-fake-ssh's program name has to be a single
word for some ssh tests.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>