Use saner defaults

So that most of the time users won't need to use any switches.

--pretty-print has been inverted into jq's --compact-output,
and --auto-id has been replaced with barely, if-at-all useful
--null-as-id.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/json-rpc-shell.c b/json-rpc-shell.c
index 10105cd..94baaf9 100644
--- a/json-rpc-shell.c
+++ b/json-rpc-shell.c
@@ -932,11 +932,11 @@ static struct app_context
 
 	struct config config;               ///< Program configuration
 	enum color_mode color_mode;         ///< Colour output mode
-	bool pretty_print;                  ///< Whether to pretty print
+	bool compact;                       ///< Whether to not pretty print
 	bool verbose;                       ///< Print requests
 	bool trust_all;                     ///< Don't verify peer certificates
 
-	bool auto_id;                       ///< Use automatically generated ID's
+	bool null_as_id;                    ///< JSON null is used as an ID
 	int64_t next_id;                    ///< Next autogenerated ID
 
 	iconv_t term_to_utf8;               ///< Terminal encoding to UTF-8
@@ -2845,7 +2845,7 @@ process_response (struct app_context *ctx, const json_t *id, struct str *buf,
 	if (result)
 	{
 		int flags = JSON_ENCODE_ANY;
-		if (ctx->pretty_print)
+		if (!ctx->compact)
 			flags |= JSON_INDENT (2);
 
 		char *utf8 = json_dumps (result, flags);
@@ -3041,9 +3041,16 @@ process_input (char *user_input, void *user_data)
 		*target = json_incref (args[i]);
 	}
 
-	if (!id && ctx->auto_id)
+	if (!id)
 		id = json_integer (ctx->next_id++);
 
+	// Use nulls to send notifications, unless a special switch is used
+	if (!ctx->null_as_id && json_is_null (id))
+	{
+		json_decref (id);
+		id = NULL;
+	}
+
 	make_json_rpc_call (ctx, method, id, params, pipeline);
 
 fail_parse:
@@ -3341,15 +3348,12 @@ parse_program_arguments (struct app_context *ctx, int argc, char **argv,
 		{ 'd', "debug", NULL, 0, "run in debug mode" },
 		{ 'h', "help", NULL, 0, "display this help message and exit" },
 		{ 'V', "version", NULL, 0, "output version information and exit" },
-		// TODO: consider making this the default and instead adding
-		// an option to accept JSON null as an id.
-		{ 'a', "auto-id", NULL, 0, "automatic `id' fields" },
+		{ 'n', "null-as-id", NULL, 0, "JSON null is used as an `id'" },
 		{ 'o', "origin", "O", 0, "set the HTTP Origin header" },
-		// TODO: consider inverting this to -c/--compact-output
-		{ 'p', "pretty", NULL, 0, "pretty-print the responses" },
+		{ 'c', "compact-output", NULL, 0, "do not pretty-print responses" },
 		{ 't', "trust-all", NULL, 0, "don't care about SSL/TLS certificates" },
 		{ 'v', "verbose", NULL, 0, "print raw requests and responses" },
-		{ 'c', "color", "WHEN", OPT_LONG_ONLY,
+		{ 'C', "color", "WHEN", OPT_LONG_ONLY,
 		  "colorize output: never, always, or auto" },
 		{ 'w', "write-default-cfg", "FILENAME",
 		  OPT_OPTIONAL_ARG | OPT_LONG_ONLY,
@@ -3375,12 +3379,12 @@ parse_program_arguments (struct app_context *ctx, int argc, char **argv,
 		exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
 
 	case 'o': *origin = optarg;         break;
-	case 'a': ctx->auto_id      = true; break;
-	case 'p': ctx->pretty_print = true; break;
+	case 'n': ctx->null_as_id   = true; break;
+	case 'c': ctx->compact      = true; break;
 	case 't': ctx->trust_all    = true; break;
 	case 'v': ctx->verbose      = true; break;
 
-	case 'c':
+	case 'C':
 		if      (!strcasecmp (optarg, "never"))
 			ctx->color_mode = COLOR_NEVER;
 		else if (!strcasecmp (optarg, "always"))