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is there a flyte literal parser utility to produce the json that gets surfaced in the flyte UI?

there’s an informal one that I use.  but it’s more of an internal utilty for us.

wait, what do you mean by literal parser?

sorry - i was referring to parsing protobufs

yea i just want something that produces a user friendly json, minus the literal wrappers

if you can just point us to code that's cool too

```flyte-cli parse-proto -f map_input.pb -p flyteidl.core.literals_pb2.LiteralMap```


and you can take a peek at the code, it’s not much

<https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/blob/46160bb73d6ac22281202ab0c7094416b727869a/flytekit/clis/flyte_cli/main.py#L617-L619|this> is all it does

it’s dumb because you have to know what type of protobuf you have.

Ah but this containers the literal types like primitive stringvalue etc

there’s nothing for that, short of converting them into pure python native values, but that’s complicated.

Yea literally what appears in flyte console

<@U02SJRLAPKM> or <@U039ABA6BAR> - can you point us to the JS/TS code that prettifies the flyte literal values?  so that you don’t get “Literal(Scalar(Primitive(….”

Carina could be a better person to check with as she is literally makes it better right now :)

<@U01E1L78CLA> our existing code is processing the json directly into ui, you can look here as an entry point <https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteconsole/blob/master/src/components/Literals/LiteralMapViewer.tsx>

The current change in progress would simplify the structure and then display it in the UI as raw json <https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteconsole/pull/445> (entrypoint through <https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteconsole/pull/445/files#diff-2693ce21d6fffa372ad7bab04c9536114db48146643784d2b3f6d3802989a066|src/components/Literals/helpers.ts> : transformLiteralMap)

<@U01E1L78CLA> there is some stuff in golang

<https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteidl/tree/master/clients/go/coreutils>

thanks ketan, this is what i was looking for! i had written this a while back but lost the code :slightly_smiling_face: