dmidecode is not easily parseable... Possible option to allow for JSON output?

[colton22]

Hello! I am wondering how hard it would be to write this so it can output JSON if triggered by a --json option? Has this been tried before? Any insight?

Thanks!

CR

[IAXES]

Hello! I am wondering how hard it would be to write this so it can output JSON if triggered by a --json option? Has this been tried before? Any insight?

Thanks!

CR

I've brought this up recently in the mailing list on nongnu.org.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dmidecode-devel/2020-01/msg00000.html

It should be straightforward to implement, but I'll need to hear back from the maintainers first to make sure they're on board with either an additional flag or an additional binary (since the tool would now rely on additional external libraries). Worst case scenario, I could fork the project via Github and make the change, but I really would like to avoid that route.

[dszidi]

I have a WIP branch that creates a json flag. It is ugly but it's a start. It also doesn't require additional libraries. I'd be happy to fix it up as long as the project is interested in this feature. I'll happily make whatever adjustments the project devs require to get dmidecode to output JSON and XML. Hopefully they'll respond in here.

[jrgerber]

We are actively working on a cross-platform version of dmidecode in Rust and a JSON switch was added today:
https://github.com/jrgerber/dmidecode-rs

In the Unix realm it is tested on Linux and FreeBSD, beyond those two we need help and feedback for other Unix flavors.