@Blaimi Are you using the validator as a Node module within JavaScript code or as a CLI tool?

I want to use it in a gitlab-pipeline [1]. gitlab requires the code climate output format for integration in code quality reports [2].

[1] https://gitlab.com/biletado/apidocs/-/blob/0dfa977c8cc38282dada77f50c8db151f5e6926d/.gitlab-ci.yml#L6
[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/testing/code_quality.html#implementing-a-custom-tool

I see. So it's not sufficient just to have JSON output, you need an entirely new output structure?

@Blaimi in our official 1.0.0 release of the validator, we have defined a json schema that describes the JSON output produced by the validator. Perhaps a way to solve this would be to use a tool such as jq to post-process the validator's JSON output to produce the correct format needed by Code Climate.

Yes, I considered jq for a few moments, but when I remember correct, the structures are too different for an easy and maintainable solution. It's probably easier to write a small node tool or wrapper in a oop language which transforms the output.

Would you accept a PR on this topic with an implementation? e.g. with outputFormat: codeclimate/--codeclimate?