format_handler.hpp

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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Povl Filip Sonne-Frederiksen
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
#pragma once
 
#include <cstdint>
#include <filesystem>
#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <variant>
#include <vector>
 
namespace rux::database {

enum class OutputFormat {
  Binary, // Raw binary data (point clouds, meshes, images)
  JSON,   // JSON object or array
  Text    // Plain text (scalar values)
};

using DataPayload =
    std::variant<std::string, std::vector<uint8_t>, nlohmann::json>;

OutputFormat detect_format(const DataPayload &payload);

void write_output(const DataPayload &payload, bool force_pretty = false);

void write_to_file(const DataPayload &payload,
                   const std::filesystem::path &file_path);

bool is_stdout_tty();

std::string json_to_text(const nlohmann::json &j);
 
} // namespace rux::database