before this change, `scylla sstable dump-statistics` prints the
"regular_columns" as a list of strings, like:
```
"regular_columns": [
"name",
"clustering_order",
"type_name",
"org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type",
"name",
"column_name_bytes",
"type_name",
"org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType",
"name",
"kind",
"type_name",
"org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type",
"name",
"position",
"type_name",
"org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.Int32Type",
"name",
"type",
"type_name",
"org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type"
]
```
but according
https://opensource.docs.scylladb.com/stable/operating-scylla/admin-tools/scylla-sstable.html#dump-statistics,
> $SERIALIZATION_HEADER_METADATA := {
> "min_timestamp_base": Uint64,
> "min_local_deletion_time_base": Uint64,
> "min_ttl_base": Uint64",
> "pk_type_name": String,
> "clustering_key_types_names": [String, ...],
> "static_columns": [$COLUMN_DESC, ...],
> "regular_columns": [$COLUMN_DESC, ...],
> }
>
> $COLUMN_DESC := {
> "name": String,
> "type_name": String
> }
"regular_columns" is supposed to be a list of "$COLUMN_DESC".
the same applies to "static_columnes". this schema makes sense,
as each column should be considered as a single object which
is composed of two properties. but we dump them like a list.
so, in this change, we guard each visit() call of `json_dumper()`
with `StartObject()` and `EndObject()` pair, so that each column
is printed as an object.
after the change, "regular_columns" are printed like:
```
"regular_columns": [
{
"name": "clustering_order",
"type_name": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type"
},
{
"name": "column_name_bytes",
"type_name": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType"
},
{
"name": "kind",
"type_name": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type"
},
{
"name": "position",
"type_name": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.Int32Type"
},
{
"name": "type",
"type_name": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type"
}
]
```
Fixes#15036
Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <kefu.chai@scylladb.com>
Closes#15037
(cherry picked from commit c82f1d2f57)