Support machine friendly output format

[abatilo]

If we could have a JSON output format, or any other easy machine parseable format, I believe integrating this into something like vim's ALE plugin would be much easier.

[preslavmihaylov]

This is a good idea. I will consider it in a future release.

In the meantime, you could check out this function which parses the program's output. It's part of the custom testing framework I did for the project - based on verifying the binary's output.

[preslavmihaylov]

todocheck now supports output as json.

Usage:

todocheck --format json

Sample output:

[
   {
      "type":"Malformed todo",
      "filename":"tmp/main.groovy",
      "line":2,
      "message":"TODO should match pattern - TODO {task_id}:"
   },
   {
      "type":"Malformed todo",
      "filename":"tmp/main.groovy",
      "line":12,
      "message":"TODO should match pattern - TODO {task_id}:"
   },
   {
      "type":"Issue doesn't exist",
      "filename":"tmp/main.groovy",
      "line":15,
      "message":""
   }
]