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Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.)
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* docs: update json jobs docs Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.) Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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* docs: update json jobs docs Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.) Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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* docs: update json jobs docs Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.) Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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* no-op commit due to failed cherry-picking * docs: update json jobs docs (#12766) * docs: update json jobs docs Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.) Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com> Co-authored-by: temp <temp@hashicorp.com> Co-authored-by: Michael Schurter <mschurter@hashicorp.com> Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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* docs: update json jobs docs Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.) Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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* docs: update json jobs docs Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not. The 2½ formats are: ``` 1. HCL JSON 2. Input API JSON (top-level Job field) 2.5. Output API JSON (lacks top-level Job field) ``` `#2` is what our docs consider our API JSON. `#2.5` seems to be an accident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility. `#1` is an even more interesting accident of history: the `jobspec2` package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to produce JSON that `nomad run` accepts! Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON to `nomad run`, and people don't file bugs around features that Just Work, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and *acknowledged but not suggested* in documentation. See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look like. (I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be comprehensive.) Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com> Co-authored-by: temp <temp@hashicorp.com> Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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Did you know that Nomad has not 1 but 2 JSON formats for jobs? 2½ if you
want to acknowledge that sometimes our JSON job representations have a
Job top-level wrapper and sometimes do not.
The 2½ formats are:
#2is what our docs consider our API JSON.#2.5seems to be anaccident of history we can't fix with breaking API compatibility.
#1is an even more interesting accident of history: thejobspec2package automatically detects if the input to Parse is JSON and switches
to a JSON parser. This behavior is undocumented, the format is
unspecified, and there is no official HashiCorp tooling to produce this
JSON from HCL. The plot thickens when you discover popular third party
tools like hcl2json.com and https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json seem to
produce JSON that
nomad runaccepts!Since we have no telemetry around whether or not anyone passes HCL JSON
to
nomad run, and people don't file bugs around features that JustWork, I'm choosing to leave that code path in place and acknowledged
but not suggested in documentation.
See hashicorp/hcl#498 for a more comprehensive
discussion of what officially supporting HCL JSON in Nomad would look
like.
(I also added some of the missing fields to the (Input API flavor) JSON
Job documentation, but it still needs a lot of work to be
comprehensive.)