json input format not listed in dbamsg help

[dcesari]

dbamsg help convert
Usage: dbamsg convert [options] [filter] filename [filename [...]]
...
  -t, --type=type                  format of the input data ('bufr', 'crex',
                                   'csv')

But dbamsg -t json -d bufr works. Are there any other valid input formats not listed in the doc? Of course the same holds for other dbamsg subcommands.

[spanezz]

I checked in the code, and it's csv, json, bufr, crex, and auto. auto looks inside the input file to determine if it's BUFR or CREX, but can't autodetect CSV or JSON, and I'm king of tempted of not documenting it, and say that if one specifies --type, one has a type to specify.

I've fixed the documentation about input types. Output types like --dest are still mostly only bufr and crex, although looking at the code it's high time it's refactored to promote at least JSON to a first-class citizen.

[spanezz]

JSON is now available like BUFR and CREX everywhere an encoding may be specified, be it in command line tools and in the APIs.

I have not done the same for CSV, because we currently have 2 or 3 different CSV layouts. If we want to standardize on one (like the output of dbamsg dump --csv --interpreted), I can do the same with CSV