Add display_name field to Author JSON output#8
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The Author struct's JSON output includes structured fields (last_name,
fore_name, initials, affiliation) but no ready-to-use display string.
Consumers parsing --json output had to reconstruct "ForeName LastName"
themselves, and the FullName() method was only used for CSV/human output.
Add display_name field that is populated via FullName() at parse time.
This is non-breaking — existing JSON consumers see an additional field.
Example before:
{"last_name": "Pedapati", "fore_name": "Ernest V", "initials": "EV"}
Example after:
{"last_name": "Pedapati", "fore_name": "Ernest V", "initials": "EV",
"display_name": "Ernest V Pedapati"}
Handles collective names correctly (display_name = collective_name).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
pubmed fetch --jsonreturns authors as structured objects:{"last_name": "Pedapati", "fore_name": "Ernest V", "initials": "EV", "affiliation": "..."}Consumers parsing this JSON must reconstruct a display name manually. The
FullName()method exists on theAuthorstruct but is only used for CSV and human output — not JSON. This caused a parse failure in DocsRevise where the literature search expected author strings and got objects.Fix
Add a
display_namefield to theAuthorstruct, populated viaFullName()at parse time:{"last_name": "Pedapati", "fore_name": "Ernest V", "initials": "EV", "display_name": "Ernest V Pedapati", "affiliation": "..."}display_name=collective_name)Test plan
go test ./...passespubmed fetch 41659484 --json | jq '.[] .authors[0].display_name'returns"Peyton Siekierski"Generated with Claude Code