I would preferably like to have a structure like this in json:
{
"a":["b":1, "c":2],
"x":["y":3, "z":4]
}
I can work with "a" & "x" as directories & have nodes under them to store data. I cannot find it in the documentation or example of how to get this done.
EDIT: I just created it as a directory by calling the /a/b, /a/c, /x/y & /x/z for Set. This creates the necessary structure, but am looking for a simplified version perhaps to do the same, instead of 4 etcd calls.
to create a directory
etcdctl mkdir <my_dir>
to do what you want, there is this option:
etcdctl set myobject '{"a":["b":1, "c":2],"x":["y":3, "z":4]}'
will save the json as an object that you can pull back in one call (with get)
the key is a string, the value is a string: so you can put anything you want there as long as it's a string... so JSON is a string, and you can put your json string there like anything else.
when you need it back you pull the json string and parse it.