chg: dev: Stop prettifying JSON statistics

Passing the JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY flag to
json_object_to_json_string_ext() makes the latter produce prettified
JSON output.  This results in a huge amount of redundant whitespace
being inserted into each HTTP response (whitespace amounts to about 40%
of the entire JSON payload).

The bandwidth cost can be amortized by enabling HTTP compression on the
client side ("Accept-Encoding: deflate"), but that does not affect the
size of data at rest.

Use the JSON_C_TO_STRING_PLAIN flag instead of JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY
to minimize the size of JSON responses sent via the statistics channel.
External tools should be used for prettifying JSON data.

Closes #3304

Merge branch '3304-stop-prettifying-json-statistics' into 'main'

See merge request isc-projects/bind9!10786
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Michał Kępień 2025-10-27 10:57:58 +01:00
commit 90408b813d

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@ -3332,7 +3332,7 @@ generatejson(named_server_t *server, size_t *msglen, const char **msg,
}
*msg = json_object_to_json_string_ext(bindstats,
JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY);
JSON_C_TO_STRING_PLAIN);
*msglen = strlen(*msg);
if (rootp != NULL) {