netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next v4 0/5] bridge: json support for fdb and vlan show

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Message-ID: <20160622200055.GA1977@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:00:55 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	anuradhak@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
	julien@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next v4 0/5] bridge: json support for fdb
 and vlan show

Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:10:47PM CEST, stephen@...workplumber.org wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:53:44 +0200
>Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>
>> Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 03:45:50PM CEST, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com wrote:
>> >From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>> >
>> >This patch series adds json support for a few bridge show commands.
>> >We plan to follow up with json support for additional commands soon.  
>> 
>> I'm just curious, what is you use case for this? Apps can use rtnetlink
>> socket directly.
>
>Try using netlink in perl or python, it is quite difficult.

pyroute2? Quite easy...