feat: use 'pretty' option when generating json

Author: cAttte

bin/typedoc

@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ async function run(app) {
             }
             const json = app.options.getValue("json");
             if (json) {
-                await app.generateJson(project, json);
+                const pretty = app.options.getValue("pretty");
+                await app.generateJson(project, json, pretty);
             }
 
             if (!out && !json) {
@@ -87,7 +88,8 @@ async function run(app) {
     }
     const json = app.options.getValue("json");
     if (json) {
-        await app.generateJson(project, json);
+        const pretty = app.options.getValue("pretty");
+        await app.generateJson(project, json, pretty);
     }
 
     if (!out && !json) {

scripts/rebuild_specs.js

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ async function rebuildRendererTest() {
     app.options.setValue("entryPoints", app.expandInputFiles([src]));
     const project = app.convert();
     await app.generateDocs(project, out);
-    await app.generateJson(project, path.join(out, "specs.json"));
+    await app.generateJson(project, path.join(out, "specs.json"), true);
 
     /**
      * Avoiding sync methods here is... difficult.

src/lib/application.ts

@@ -387,12 +387,14 @@ export class Application extends ChildableComponent<
     /**
      * Run the converter for the given set of files and write the reflections to a json file.
      *
-     * @param out  The path and file name of the target file.
-     * @returns TRUE if the json file could be written successfully, otherwise FALSE.
+     * @param out The path and file name of the target file.
+     * @param format Whether the JSON data should be formatted with tabs.
+     * @returns Whether the JSON file could be written successfully.
      */
     public async generateJson(
         project: ProjectReflection,
-        out: string
+        out: string,
+        format = true
     ): Promise<void> {
         out = Path.resolve(out);
         const eventData = {
@@ -403,7 +405,9 @@ export class Application extends ChildableComponent<
             begin: eventData,
             end: eventData,
         });
-        await FS.promises.writeFile(out, JSON.stringify(ser, null, "\t"));
+
+        const space = format ? "\t" : "";
+        await FS.promises.writeFile(out, JSON.stringify(ser, null, space));
         this.logger.success("JSON written to %s", out);
     }