'riak-admin vnode-status' formatted incorrectly [JIRA: RIAK-2051]

[basho]

'riak-admin vnode-status' formatted incorrectly [JIRA: RIAK-2051]

[binarytemple]

+1 - current vnode-status isn't much better. See customer issue. Would be much better if it output as Erlang terms OR JSON. The hodgepodge output formatting is neither easy to read nor easy to parse.

[hcs42]

I agree with @binarytemple: currently I have a Python script that converts the output of riak-admin vnode-status into a list of Erlang terms so that I can process it with an escript. If the output was already an Erlang term (or JSON), I wouldn't need the extra Python script.

But also note that it would be nice not to deminish the little readability it already has.

So instead of this:

VNode: 0
Backend: riak_kv_bitcask_backend
Status: 
[{key_count,587},{status,[]}]

VNode: 22835963083295358096932575511191922182123945984
Backend: riak_kv_bitcask_backend
Status: 
[{key_count,491},{status,[]}]

...

I would be unhappy to see something like this:

[[{vnode, 0}, {backend, riak_kv_bitcask_backend}, {status,
[{key_count,587},{status,[]}]}], [{vnode,
22835963083295358096932575511191922182123945984}, {backend,
riak_kv_bitcask_backend}, {status, [{key_count,491},{status,[]}]}], ...

A compromise might be to print Erlang terms, but keep the current formatting as much as possible:

[{vnode, 0},
 {backend, riak_kv_bitcask_backend},
 {status,
  [{key_count,587},{status,[]}]}].

 [{vnode, 22835963083295358096932575511191922182123945984},
  {backend, riak_kv_bitcask_backend},
  {status,
   [{key_count,491},{status,[]}]}].

...