JSON exporter shouldn't dump to STDOUT but to a flat file.

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Datahub::Factory - Transport metadata between Collection Management Systems and the Datahub

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JSON exporter shouldn't dump to STDOUT but to a flat file. #50

Closed netsensei closed 7 years ago

netsensei commented 7 years ago

The JSON exporter currently dumps the output to STDOUT. Within the functional scope of this project, that's not a valid data sink. Data should be exported persistently. So, the JSON exporter should dump to a flat file by default.

The same is true for all exporters.

pieterdp commented 7 years ago

Wouldn't that inhibit piping commands? Or will STDOUT still be supported (e.g. by using '-' as a parameter).

netsensei commented 7 years ago

Correct. Gave it some thought. Dumping to STDOUT is perfectly fine in the *NIX philosophy. The only limitation is not being able to use the -v (verbose) flag because that prints to STDOUT a well.

This would only overcomplicate things.