Feature request: iw dev DEVICE scan support about jc HOT 4 CLOSED

There are some special cases one needs to be aware of when implementing this.
Some access points may not broadcast any SSID. iw then displays a null character (\0). There may be more but I personally haven't encountered any - yet ;)

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Hi @pschmitt,

I have a beta version of the iw-scan parser ready.

This parser can be tested by placing a file called iw_scan.py under $HOME/.local/share/jc/jcparsers with the code from here: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/blob/dev/jc/parsers/iw_scan.py.

I have noted that this parser is 'beta' quality since I don't really have a lot of examples to test with. If you have more example output for me to test I'll put it through the paces.

This output is pretty hairy, so I sorta cheated and didn't create a schema. I did make a best-effort attempt to convert ints and floats and programmatically pull as many fields in as possible. Some fields/data will be missing - most notably multi-line fields where there are not obvious key/value pairs on each line. If there are additional fields/data that you need for your use case I can improve the parser to get more of that info like I did for the dmidecode and sysctl parsers.

Cheers!

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Cool, thanks!

I've been testing this for the last few minutes on my laptop and on Termux. For some reason I only get a few fields (mac_address and interface):

sudo iw dev wlan0 scan | jc --iw_scan | jq
[                                      
  {                                    
    "mac_address": "90:5c:44:d1:34:2f",
    "interface": "wlan0"               
  },                                   
  {                                    
    "mac_address": "92:5c:14:d1:34:2f",
    "interface": "wlan0"               
  }
]

As a sidenote it would make sense to rename mac_address to bssid - given the context (ref)

Thanks for the time and effort you put into this! Let me know if I can help you debug this further.

EDIT: I found the issue. See #97

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Changes merged into v1.14.1, now available on pypi.

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