[HOP-4039] (DOC) revise jsonoutput

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Hans Van Akelyen
• Reporter: Vladimir Alexiev
• Created: 06/Jul/22 08:58
• Updated: 19/Jul/22 19:06
• Resolved: 19/Jul/22 19:06

Description

See https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/pipeline/transforms/jsonoutput.html#_general_tab Compatibility mode

• rewrite this section since it's barely readable.
  • Does this compatibility mode change only the formatting, or the structure?
  • Why does the example show a block where value:25 is duplicated 3 times?
  • Why is there a standalone row where the same is duplicated 1 time?
  • "compatibility mode will use empty string for block name" is a bad way to describe that 1 level of JSON object is skipped (the "data" key)
  • the examples are syntactically incorrect: `}{` and `][` are missing a comma. Furthermore, an outer `[...]` is needed
• add an anchor to this subsection
• rewrite the sentence "NOTE, 1 is a special values, in case of 1 every output will be generated as one object" to use proper grammar
  • `See description below`: where is that description? Is the strange standalone row intended to illustrate this case as well???