Ctags json output is wrongly formatted

[NimaAgm]

The name of the parser:C-parser

The command line you used to run ctags:
ctags.exe -R --languages=C --sort=yes -x --kinds-C=* --file-scope=yes --output-format=json -f tag2.txt

The version of ctags:

ctags --version
Universal Ctags 5.9.0(p5.9.20220306.0), Copyright (C) 2015-2022 Universal Ctags Team
Universal Ctags is derived from Exuberant Ctags.
Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
Compiled: Mar 6 2022, 01:06:23
URL: https://ctags.io/
Optional compiled features: +win32, +wildcards, +regex, +gnulib_regex, +internal-sort, +unix-path-separator, +iconv, +option-directory, +xpath, +json, +interactive, +yaml, +case-insensitive-filenames, +packcc, +optscript, +pcre2

the problem is the format of output json file is wrong and I cant not work with in python it says the formats is wrong and and I checked format in json format checker it was wrong

sample of json output
jsontags.txt

python error
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 93)

[masatake]

Sorry for making you confused.
We should use the name of the output format jsonl instead of json; though we use the name 'json', the actual data emitted by ctags is jsonl.

[NimaAgm]

Thanks I understood. I parsed the information line by line

[masatake]

About the "json" output, see https://docs.ctags.io/en/latest/man/ctags-client-tools.7.html#json-output .

[hawkinchina]

how to Compile with json supported ?

[masatake]

See #3272.