Interract with CLI in machine readable format

[slovak194]

For automation/scripting it would be nice to have a machine readable request/response format. Such as json, for example.
As for now - to query parameter it requires parsing text output, adding "_" where necessary, removing help text, etc.

Best regards,
Alex

[olliw42]

@slovak194
I guess this would not be soo hard to do, but:
is this just an academic desire, like "would be nice to have", or is it a real thing, e.g., are you developping some app which the wider mLRS community could profit from, which would want that?
you know, we don't like to add features which are not really used by a wide enough user base

[slovak194]

It is not a academic desire, I'm looking at this from the standpoint of mass production, deployment, maitainance.
Other issues I've placed also based on this.
This may potentially bring more industry users into the "wide enough user base", if it is of any interest.

[olliw42]

if you are industry, you can afford spending a little time to write propriatary read/set code which interacts with the cli, it's really not rocket science to do the text conversions
also it's open source, so feel free to do a PR with what you want, then we can see if anyone else wants it too
at this point in time, as far as I can see, it's academic since it seems you don't have yet a case where you can show it's needed