Support prettifying of serializing json string with f.ex key and value different color

[hafiz013]

If this library possible in the future make key and value of json beauty different color like in apps postman.

[yawkat]

jackson is not responsible for syntax highlighting of output.

[cowtowncoder]

Agree with @yawkat: such functionality would need to be done by some other tool, or by Jackson extension. I assume this would require adding terminal emulation characters (VT-100 etc) around content; something that "JSONP" style wrappers can do.

In fact I suspect this might be already doable, come to think of that, but my terminal emulation code knowledge is bit dated (I did write a Java terminal emulator once, but that was in late 1990s!).

Although... given that this is asking for separate styling for key and values, I think the combination to use would have to be something like:

• Use custom PrettyPrinter to inject terminal emulation codes
• Use JsonGenerator.writeRaw() for actual forced writes of codes, outside of "regular" content itself

but I do think that is actually doable.

And... it sounds like someone could maybe create a Jackson Module that allows doing this, with configurability of styling to use.

[hafiz013]

I just image if can do it.