[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 2/4] intel_gpu_top: Automatically enclose JSON output into brackets

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>

Parsers need the whole output enclosed into square brackets so every
period sample becomes an array element.

So far we have been suggesting this in the man page but we can trivially
make the tool output that itself.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen at intel.com>
---
 man/intel_gpu_top.rst | 2 +-
 tools/intel_gpu_top.c | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/intel_gpu_top.rst b/man/intel_gpu_top.rst
index b0c95446a011..3317e04816b4 100644
--- a/man/intel_gpu_top.rst
+++ b/man/intel_gpu_top.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Filter types: ::
 JSON OUTPUT
 ===========
 
-To parse the JSON as output by the tool the consumer should wrap its entirety into square brackets ([ ]). This will make each sample point a JSON array element and will avoid "Multiple root elements" JSON validation error.
+JSON output will be correctly terminated when the tool cleanly exits, otherwise one square bracket needs to be added before parsing.
 
 LIMITATIONS
 ===========
diff --git a/tools/intel_gpu_top.c b/tools/intel_gpu_top.c
index 6de8a164fcff..c4d98de4fe31 100644
--- a/tools/intel_gpu_top.c
+++ b/tools/intel_gpu_top.c
@@ -2597,6 +2597,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	scan_clients(clients, false);
 	codename = igt_device_get_pretty_name(&card, false);
 
+	if (output_mode == JSON)
+		printf("[\n");
+
 	while (!stop_top) {
 		struct clients *disp_clients;
 		bool consumed = false;
@@ -2683,6 +2686,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			usleep(period_us);
 	}
 
+	if (output_mode == JSON)
+		printf("]\n");
+
 	if (clients)
 		free_clients(clients);
 
-- 
2.34.1