Dump readable values to stdout
matschaffer opened this issue · comments
I noticed that the -dump option provides values as base64 encoded.
Would be possible/preferable to display them as straight strings in the dump output?
The -dump option simply returns the raw decrypted/decompressed output from the Consul API. It is just an easy way to "view" your backup files.
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On Mar 6, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Mat Schaffer notifications@github.com wrote:
I noticed that the -dump option provides values as base64 encoded.
Would be possible/preferable to display them as straight strings in the dump output?
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For sure. My thinking was that if we had multiple backup files it could be useful to see the full set of keys & values to confirm we're reloading the best possible backup. For the time being I came up with this:
> consul-backinator -restore -dump |\
jq -r '.[] | [.Key, .Value] | @sh' |\
xargs -I{} -n1 sh -c 'echo $(echo {} | cut -d" " -f1)=$(echo {} | cut -d" " -f2 | base64 -d)'But it's pretty roundabout compared with what I'm guessing it'd take to have the dump code show decoded values.
Maybe -dump -decode would be better?
Got it. So instead of just decoding would you actually prefer a "human readable" output? Maybe something in ascii table format?
Something like this ... https://github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter
That sounds like a cool idea. I haven't put much time into brainstorming
formats but so long as it's diffable it should be good.
On Tuesday, 8 March 2016, Aaron Hurt notifications@github.com wrote:
Got it. So instead of just decoding would you actually prefer a "human
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-Mat
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I couldn't think of a nice way to use a table or other format with all the possible options for a data payload in a KV store. I settled on just a very simple output format ...
Key: keyName
ValueHere and Here
and Here
Key: someOtherKey
more Values and Stuff
This should be greppable/diffable and give you approximately what you wanted.
Looks fantastic. Thanks!