From 6535da7bdeb8e4bf36de89bf861d20d22ffe5efa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Crisci <tony@dubstepdish.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 14:45:53 -0400
Subject: swaymsg: pretty print ipc response

fixes #809
---
 swaymsg/CMakeLists.txt |  3 ++-
 swaymsg/main.c         | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'swaymsg')

diff --git a/swaymsg/CMakeLists.txt b/swaymsg/CMakeLists.txt
index 06939991..a4989b9c 100644
--- a/swaymsg/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/swaymsg/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ add_executable(swaymsg
 
 target_link_libraries(swaymsg
 	sway-common
-	)
+	${JSONC_LIBRARIES}
+)
 
 install(
 	TARGETS swaymsg
diff --git a/swaymsg/main.c b/swaymsg/main.c
index 88a8fab0..29e80f02 100644
--- a/swaymsg/main.c
+++ b/swaymsg/main.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <sys/un.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <json-c/json.h>
 #include "stringop.h"
 #include "ipc-client.h"
 #include "readline.h"
@@ -109,16 +110,27 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 		command = join_args(argv + optind, argc - optind);
 	}
 
+	int ret = 0;
 	int socketfd = ipc_open_socket(socket_path);
 	uint32_t len = strlen(command);
 	char *resp = ipc_single_command(socketfd, type, command, &len);
 	if (!quiet) {
-		printf("%s\n", resp);
+		// pretty print the json
+		json_object *obj = json_tokener_parse(resp);
+
+		if (obj == NULL) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Could not parse json response from ipc. This is a bug in sway.");
+			printf("%s\n", resp);
+			ret = 1;
+		} else {
+			printf("%s\n", json_object_to_json_string_ext(obj, JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY | JSON_C_TO_STRING_SPACED));
+			free(obj);
+		}
 	}
 	close(socketfd);
 
 	free(command);
 	free(resp);
 	free(socket_path);
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
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