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Problem with jq parsing mgmt_cli output.

akurtasanov — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:55:40 GMT

Good day.

I'm trying to earn all Non-FQDN (Wildcard) domain from SMS server through CLI.

I'm able to receive all domain by using as example 'mgmt_cli -r true show dns-domains details-level full limit 5 --format json'.

But when I try to parse output with jq and filter as example '.objects[].is-sub-domain' I receive next error message ' error: domain is not defined'. Other variations of using this filter and Boolean value have same result ' error: domain is not defined'.

Filters like '.objects[].name' or '.objects[].domain' work fine.

How to do correct parsing?

P.S. Additionally tried old Whitepaper about FQDN objects. Doesn't work too.

Re: Problem with jq parsing mgmt_cli output.

masher — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:45:27 GMT

I believe that you need to add the is-sub-domain in quotes as well as adding details-level full to your mgmt_cli command.

[Expert@mgmt2:0]# mgmt_cli -r true show dns-domains -f json details-level full| jq -r '.objects[]|."is-sub-domain"'
true
false

 [Expert@mgmt2:0]# mgmt_cli -r true show dns-domains -f json details-level full| jq -r '.objects[]|[.name,."is-sub-domain"]'
[
".corp.example2.com",
true
]
[
".www.example.com",
false
]

Re: Problem with jq parsing mgmt_cli output.

akurtasanov — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:31:33 GMT

Interesting.

Thanks!

Will try.

Re: Problem with jq parsing mgmt_cli output.

Bob_Zimmerman — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:22:04 GMT

This is the biggest headache with using the management API via mgmt_cli. At least 60% of the keys have dashes in them, and jq makes you quote keys which contain dashes.

Separately, jq has the ability to extract objects which match a given predicate using the 'select' command, like so:

[Expert@DallasSC]# mgmt_cli -f json -r true show dns-domains details-level full limit 500 offset 0 | jq -c '.objects[]|select(."is-sub-domain" == false)|.' {"uid":"00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff","name":".core.windows.net","type":"dns-domain","domain":{...},"is-sub-domain":true,"comments":"","color":"black","icon":"Objects/domain","tags":[],"meta-info":{"lock":"unlocked","validation-state":"ok","last-modify-time":{"posix":"[...]","iso-8601":"[...]"},"last-modifier":"[...]","creation-time":{"posix":"[...]","iso-8601":"[...]"},"creator":"[...]"},"read-only":false,"available-actions":{"edit":"true","delete":"true","clone":"true"}} ...

Once you have the objects, you can carve them up for display any way you want by just replacing that last dot.

Re: Problem with jq parsing mgmt_cli output.

akurtasanov — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 05:10:10 GMT

Thanks!