Optionally display listings in raw json

Symlinks have recently added some new keys to container listings.  It's
very convenient to be able to see and reason about the extra information
in container listings.

Allowing raw json output is similar with what the client already does
for the info command, and it's forward compatible with any listing
enhancements added by future middleware development.

Change-Id: I88fb38529342ac4e4198aeccd2f10c69c7396704

2 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/swiftclient/shell.py b/swiftclient/shell.py
index 0459533..2be85af 100755
--- a/swiftclient/shell.py
+++ b/swiftclient/shell.py
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ from sys import argv as sys_argv, exit, stderr, stdin
 from time import gmtime, strftime
 
 from swiftclient import RequestException
-from swiftclient.utils import config_true_value, generate_temp_url, prt_bytes
+from swiftclient.utils import config_true_value, generate_temp_url, \
+    prt_bytes, JSONableIterable
 from swiftclient.multithreading import OutputManager
 from swiftclient.exceptions import ClientException
 from swiftclient import __version__ as client_version
@@ -578,6 +579,8 @@ def st_list(parser, args, output_manager, return_parser=False):
         help='Roll up items with the given delimiter. For containers '
              'only. See OpenStack Swift API documentation for '
              'what this means.')
+    parser.add_argument('-j', '--json', action='store_true',
+                        help='print listing information in json')
     parser.add_argument(
         '-H', '--header', action='append', dest='header',
         default=[],
@@ -616,6 +619,20 @@ def st_list(parser, args, output_manager, return_parser=False):
                 else:
                     stats_parts_gen = swift.list(container=container)
 
+            if options.get('json', False):
+                def listing(stats_parts_gen=stats_parts_gen):
+                    for stats in stats_parts_gen:
+                        if stats["success"]:
+                            for item in stats['listing']:
+                                yield item
+                        else:
+                            raise stats["error"]
+
+                json.dump(
+                    JSONableIterable(listing()), output_manager.print_stream,
+                    sort_keys=True, indent=2)
+                output_manager.print_msg('')
+                return
             for stats in stats_parts_gen:
                 if stats["success"]:
                     _print_stats(options, stats, human)
diff --git a/swiftclient/utils.py b/swiftclient/utils.py
index 2b208b9..9e43237 100644
--- a/swiftclient/utils.py
+++ b/swiftclient/utils.py
@@ -403,3 +403,25 @@ def normalize_manifest_path(path):
     if path.startswith('/'):
         return path[1:]
     return path
+
+
+class JSONableIterable(list):
+    def __init__(self, iterable):
+        self._iterable = iter(iterable)
+        try:
+            self._peeked = next(self._iterable)
+            self._has_items = True
+        except StopIteration:
+            self._peeked = None
+            self._has_items = False
+
+    def __bool__(self):
+        return self._has_items
+
+    __nonzero__ = __bool__
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        if self._has_items:
+            yield self._peeked
+        for item in self._iterable:
+            yield item