AreaOther Any other topic (Delegation, Ranking, ...).
Describe the feature you'd like
The json-formatted query utxo output should be obtainable by providing an optional --json flag or sth similar. Currently the output is automatically json-formatted when using --out-file. This is terrible for many reasons, some of them
It is completely undocumented
There is a semantic difference between cardano-cli query utxo ... > file and cardano-cli query utxo ... --out-file file which is... unintuitive to say the least
The current canonical way to get json formatted output from the node is cardano-cli query utxo ... --out-file /dev/stdout... no more comments.
Internal/External External otherwise.
Area Other Any other topic (Delegation, Ranking, ...).
Describe the feature you'd like The json-formatted query utxo output should be obtainable by providing an optional
--json
flag or sth similar. Currently the output is automatically json-formatted when using--out-file
. This is terrible for many reasons, some of themcardano-cli query utxo ... > file
andcardano-cli query utxo ... --out-file file
which is... unintuitive to say the leastcardano-cli query utxo ... --out-file /dev/stdout
... no more comments.Describe alternatives you've considered None
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