Output metrics in machine readable format

eriklovlie / scaling-octo-bear

Tool to extract complexity metrics from C++ source files.

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Output metrics in machine readable format #5

Open eriklovlie opened 11 years ago

eriklovlie commented 11 years ago

The output should be in a machine readable format, such as JSON or YAML. JSON might be the better choice, because it can be imported very easily from python (it's just an eval() to get a dictionary).

Alternatives:

JSON: boost::property_map: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/boost_propertytree/tutorial.html
YAML: turns out clang/llvm already comes with a yaml library: http://llvm.org/docs/YamlIO.html

eriklovlie commented 11 years ago

Loading YAML from python is easy using pyyaml ("pip install pyyaml"), and since llvm already includes a YAML library this seems easier and cleaner than JSON.