Add --json option to "restic snapshots" (feature)

[yhafri]

Output of restic version

Any

Expected behavior

Being able to embed the result of snapshots in other services (ex. daily nice formatted HTML report).

$ restic --json -r /tmp/backup snapshots
{
  [ "id:"40dc1520", "date":"2015-05-08 21:38:30", "host":"kasimir", "tag":"", "directory":"/home/user/work" ],
  [ "id:"79766175", "date":"2015-05-08 21:40:19", "host":"kasimir", "tag":"", "directory":"/home/user/work" ]
}

Actual behavior

$ restic -r /tmp/backup snapshots
ID        Date                 Host    Tags   Directory
----------------------------------------------------------------------
40dc1520  2015-05-08 21:38:30  kasimir        /home/user/work
79766175  2015-05-08 21:40:19  kasimir        /home/user/work

[fd0]

Interesting idea, thanks for reporting it!

[yhafri]

Fantastic job @fd0.
I'll start testing and report any issue I may found

[yhafri]

And special thanks to @ibib for the PR

[yhafri]

Hi guys

Can we extend this --json feature to the find command?
Something like:

$ restic --json find -s 82a6e9de *.pdf

@ibib @fd0 your thoughts on this please ?

[ibib]

Sounds great. My masterplan is to implement a JSON output for every command.

The Problem is that i cant give you a timeline for it.

[yhafri]

@ibib excellent
As I've told @fd0 before, we can donate for it if you're interested.

[fd0]

I think it's a good idea (I've talked about it with @ibib already). I'm going to close this issue, since the option for the snapshots command is already implemented.