jc/docs/parsers/hosts.md

jc.parsers.hosts

jc - JSON CLI output utility hosts Parser

Usage:

specify --hosts as the first argument if the piped input is coming from a hosts file

Compatibility:

'linux', 'darwin', 'cygwin', 'win32', 'aix', 'freebsd'

Examples:

$ cat /etc/hosts | jc --hosts -p
[
  {
    "ip": "127.0.0.1",
    "hostname": [
      "localhost"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ip": "127.0.1.1",
    "hostname": [
      "root-ubuntu"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ip": "::1",
    "hostname": [
      "ip6-localhost",
      "ip6-loopback"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ip": "fe00::0",
    "hostname": [
      "ip6-localnet"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ip": "ff00::0",
    "hostname": [
      "ip6-mcastprefix"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ip": "ff02::1",
    "hostname": [
      "ip6-allnodes"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ip": "ff02::2",
    "hostname": [
      "ip6-allrouters"
    ]
  }
]

info

info(self, /, *args, **kwargs)

process

process(proc_data)

Final processing to conform to the schema.

Parameters:

proc_data:   (dictionary) raw structured data to process

Returns:

List of dictionaries. Structured data with the following schema:

[
  {
    "ip":           string,
    "hostname": [
                    string
    ]
  }
]

parse

parse(data, raw=False, quiet=False)

Main text parsing function

Parameters:

data:        (string)  text data to parse
raw:         (boolean) output preprocessed JSON if True
quiet:       (boolean) suppress warning messages if True

Returns:

List of dictionaries. Raw or processed structured data.