JSON Formatter

[gdiggs]

Opening this issue just to see if there is interest in this. I am happy to build it if there is:

It would be great to have a JSON formatter that outputs the result of the linting in one JSON document, rather than the XML or text formatters that are present.

[jawshooah]

Absolutely! Though with the current pace of development and releases, I doubt such a feature would make it into production anytime soon 😢

[steelbrain]

Bump! It's 2015, XML is long gone, Just support JSON already! 🌹

[Arcanemagus]

An implementation of this is up in #606, now we just need to wait for it to get merged 😉.

[sils]

Hi, we have a tool named coala that unifies a lot of other tools, including CSSLint and provides you with various output formats including JSON. It's free software, more info on http://coala-analyzer.org/ .

With that you can get CSSLint JSON output right now, assuming you have csslint installed on your machine:

pip3 install coala
coala-json --files=\*\*/\*.css --bears=CSSLintBear --save

The save flag will generate a coala configuration file so next time you just type coala or coala-json or whatever you want/need.

(Note: the intention behind this tool is to make the lifes of the people writing static code analysis easier so we do user interaction for them. Goal is to reduce redundancy not create some so we're currently wrapping lots of other tools so you can seamlessly use everything via coala.)

[Arcanemagus]

@sils1297 #606 was written specifically so we don't need to rely on aggregator tools like that (and even more specifically so we don't have to bother with pulling in a library to parse XML...).

Our use case is the linter-csslint plugin for the Atom text editor, which is quite specifically for csslint.

That being said, that's an interesting tool and it would be nice to see it as a service provider for the linter pacakge 😉. If you were interested in putting that together and had any questions feel free to hop into the #linter-plugin-dev channel on Atom's Slack instance.

[sils]

@Arcanemagus you speak of an atom linter based on the atom linter thing? Like https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala-atom ?

[Arcanemagus]

Ha! Exactly 😉

[frvge]

#606 has been merged. Closing this issue.