chore: standardise outputs across commands (#66)

fixes #65

Author: AdheipSingh

cmd/profile.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 package cmd
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/url"
@@ -54,6 +55,29 @@ func (item *ProfileListItem) Render(highlight bool) string {
 	return ItemOuter.Render(render)
 }
 
+// Add an output flag to specify the output format.
+var outputFormat string
+
+// Initialize flags
+func init() {
+	AddProfileCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&outputFormat, "output", "o", "text", "Output format (text|json)")
+	RemoveProfileCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&outputFormat, "output", "o", "text", "Output format (text|json)")
+	DefaultProfileCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&outputFormat, "output", "o", "text", "Output format (text|json)")
+	ListProfileCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&outputFormat, "output", "o", "text", "Output format (text|json)")
+}
+func outputResult(v interface{}) error {
+	if outputFormat == "json" {
+		jsonData, err := json.MarshalIndent(v, "", "  ")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		fmt.Println(string(jsonData))
+	} else {
+		fmt.Println(v)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 var AddProfileCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:     "add profile-name url <username?> <password?>",
 	Example: "  pb profile add local_parseable http://0.0.0.0:8000 admin admin",
@@ -122,6 +146,11 @@ var AddProfileCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		}
 		fmt.Printf("Added profile %s\n", StyleBold.Render(name))
 
+		if outputFormat == "json" {
+			return outputResult(profile)
+		}
+		fmt.Printf("Profile %s added successfully\n", name)
+
 		return nil
 	},
 }
@@ -145,10 +174,10 @@ var RemoveProfileCmd = &cobra.Command{
 			if len(fileConfig.Profiles) == 0 {
 				fileConfig.DefaultProfile = ""
 			}
-			err = config.WriteConfigToFile(fileConfig)
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("delete profile %s failed\n, err: %v\n", StyleBold.Render(name), err)
-				return err
+
+			config.WriteConfigToFile(fileConfig)
+			if outputFormat == "json" {
+				return outputResult(fmt.Sprintf("Deleted profile %s", name))
 			}
 			fmt.Printf("Deleted profile %s\n", StyleBold.Render(name))
 		} else {
@@ -200,6 +229,9 @@ var DefaultProfileCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		}
 
 		config.WriteConfigToFile(fileConfig)
+		if outputFormat == "json" {
+			return outputResult(fmt.Sprintf("%s is now set as default profile", name))
+		}
 		fmt.Printf("%s is now set as default profile\n", StyleBold.Render(name))
 		return nil
 	},
@@ -219,6 +251,10 @@ var ListProfileCmd = &cobra.Command{
 			println()
 		}
 
+		if outputFormat == "json" {
+			return outputResult(fileConfig.Profiles)
+		}
+
 		row := 0
 		for key, value := range fileConfig.Profiles {
 			item := ProfileListItem{key, value.URL, value.Username}