Allow user to output results in json format about cloc

[AlDanial]

Help me out here... what is it you're after? You want cloc to count json files (it already does)? You want cloc to write results in json? You want to load json into Python?

[stardust85]

Sorry for my brevity, I'd like to be able to get the results in json format, because it is the most convenient format for parsing in python and I need to post-process the results in python. Or more concretely, I need to prepare them for drawing them in zabbix for different revisions.

[AlDanial]

Sure, I can add a json output option. May be a few weeks before I get to it though. In the meantime, please give the YAML serialization a try; works great with Python.

First create YAML output with cloc:

cloc --yaml --out x.yaml code_project

Next, load the YAML file x.yaml into a Python variable. Here's a sample ipython session:

In [1]: import yaml

In [2]: x = yaml.load(file('x.yaml'))

In [3]: x

Out[3]: {'Bourne Shell': {'blank': 53, 'code': 448, 'comment': 94, 'nFiles': 30},
'C': {'blank': 4, 'code': 50, 'comment': 19, 'nFiles': 1},
'HTML': {'blank': 151, 'code': 8866, 'comment': 207, 'nFiles': 30},
'MATLAB': {'blank': 0, 'code': 22, 'comment': 1, 'nFiles': 1},
'Perl': {'blank': 2004, 'code': 22682, 'comment': 4221, 'nFiles': 164},
'Python': {'blank': 101, 'code': 553, 'comment': 284, 'nFiles': 3},
'SUM': {'blank': 2313, 'code': 32621, 'comment': 4826, 'nFiles': 229},
'header': {'cloc_url': 'https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc',
'cloc_version': 1.65,
'elapsed_seconds': 0.519536018371582,
'files_per_second': 440.777909331042,
'lines_per_second': 76529.8239083068,
'n_files': 229,
'n_lines': 39760,
'report_file': 'x.yaml'}}


[AlDanial]

git commit 0682cde implements --json output

[stardust85]

Awesome! Thanks a lot! When Can I expect this to be released?

[AlDanial]

You can pull the source from the master branch now. The next release will be in a week or two.