Aws-cli: Support for colorized JSON output

Created on 22 Aug 2016  ·  3Comments  ·  Source: aws/aws-cli

It would be great if JSON output can be colorized to make viewing/working with JSON output easier.

An example would be having all JSON keys in one color, strings values in another, and having number values in third. Very similar to what e.g http://www.bodurov.com/JsonFormatter/ would produce in terms of colors. Another example is: http://pygments.org/demo/5862267/

Possible one could simply approach coloring of JSON result by piping through e.g Pygments?
An example from SO (source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25638905/coloring-json-output-in-python)

from pygments import highlight, lexers, formatters
colorful_json = highlight(unicode(formatted_json, 'UTF-8'), lexers.JsonLexer(), formatters.TerminalFormatter())
print(colorful_json)
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Thanks, I've added some thoughts/comments over in #2125. Let's track the discussion over in the PR.

Good Morning!

We're closing this issue here on GitHub, as part of our migration to UserVoice for feature requests involving the AWS CLI.

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Based on community feedback, we have decided to return feature requests to GitHub issues.

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