Understanding of JSON output

[rplCloud]

Hi all,

I try to get JSON output using this library.

I tried the Python library and the cmark command line tool with the same results. HTML and AST looks ok for me:

cmark  <<< '*hello!*'

<p><em>hello!</em></p>

cmark -a <<< '*hello!*'

[document]
    Title:
    Info:
    Destination:
    Sourcepos: [[1, 1], [1, 8]]
    Info:
    Literal:
    Children:
        -> [document]
            -> Title:
            -> Info:
...

But I do not understand the JSON output:

cmark -aj <<< '*hello!*'

{"is_fenced": false, "t": "document", "sourcepos": [[1, 1], [1, 8]], "fence_length": 0, "open": false, "last_line_blank": false}

Honestly, I have no idea what this all about...

I expect some like this:

[ "paragraph" , [
  [ "emph" , {} , [
    [ "text" , {} , [ "hello"
...

Can you give me some hints what I am oing wrong?

Regards,
Reto

[nikolas]

It looks like it's printing out the internal structure for the Node class. See https://github.com/jgm/commonmark.js/blob/master/lib/node.js#L70

We could change this to be more user-friendly.

[nikolas]

After reproducing the problem, it looks like the ASTtoJSON function is broken. I will look into it. Thanks for letting me know.

[nikolas]

I've come up with a fix and made a pull request, which will get merged soon.