lib: convert termtable to json

Add a function that returns a JSON-C structure containing a representation
of a termtable.  This is intended to be a quick way to implement JSON
output to CLI commands.

Signed-off-by: Eric Kinzie <ekinzie@labn.net>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/termtable.h b/lib/termtable.h
index 3aa8caee89..7258682bd8 100644
--- a/lib/termtable.h
+++ b/lib/termtable.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #define _TERMTABLE_H_
 
 #include <zebra.h>
+#include "lib/json.h"
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
@@ -277,6 +278,17 @@ void ttable_rowseps(struct ttable *tt, unsigned int row,
  */
 char *ttable_dump(struct ttable *tt, const char *newline);
 
+/**
+ * Convert a table to a JSON array of objects.
+ *
+ * Caller must free the returned json_object structure.
+ *
+ * @param tt the table to convert
+ * @param formats an array of characters indicating what JSON type should be
+ * used.
+ */
+json_object *ttable_json(struct ttable *tt, const char *const formats);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif