Change default decode level to "none" with --json-output

job.sums

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ include/qpdf/auto_job_c_pages.hh b3cc0f21029f6d89efa043dcdbfa183cb59325b6506001c
 include/qpdf/auto_job_c_uo.hh ae21b69a1efa9333050f4833d465f6daff87e5b38e5106e49bbef5d4132e4ed1
 job.yml 3b2b3c6f92b48f6c76109711cbfdd74669fa31a80cd17379548b09f8e76be05d
 libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_decl.hh 74df4d7fdbdf51ecd0d58ce1e9844bb5525b9adac5a45f7c9a787ecdda2868df
-libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh 3ea60a392421150bec5e95ddaad31a82fba1d65c2686d5dfddc920aba1bf5552
+libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh c1cc99f6fe17285ee5e40730f6280e37d17da1a5f408086ce34e01af121df7ad
 libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_init.hh 7ea8e0641dc26fdfba6e283e14dbbff0c016654e174cdace8054f8bef53750fd
 libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_json_decl.hh 06caa46eaf71db8a50c046f91866baa8087745a9474319fb7c86d92634cc8297
 libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_json_init.hh 5f6b53e3c81d4b54ce5c4cf9c3f52d0c02f987c53bf8841c0280367bad23e335
 libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_schema.hh 9d543cd4a43eafffc2c4b8a6fee29e399c271c52cb6f7d417ae5497b3c1127dc
 manual/_ext/qpdf.py 6add6321666031d55ed4aedf7c00e5662bba856dfcd66ccb526563bffefbb580
-manual/cli.rst 174cf35e3ce5452701d74c87570604e19587cc41bfa3f6d239b62c2989720bdf
+manual/cli.rst e7c35f8183d015d7fe074e38baed4c89bad827fd9c23b4cafd73d562df82ab1b

libqpdf/QPDFJob_config.cc

@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ QPDFJob::Config::jsonOutput(std::string const& parameter)
         // explicit use of --json-stream-data.
         o.m->json_stream_data = qpdf_sj_inline;
     }
+    if (!o.m->decode_level_set) {
+        o.m->decode_level = qpdf_dl_none;
+    }
     return this;
 }
 

libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ ap.addOptionHelp("--decode-level", "transformation", "control which streams to u
 
 When uncompressing streams, control which types of compression
 schemes should be uncompressed:
-- none: don't uncompress anything
+- none: don't uncompress anything. This is the default with --json-output.
 - generalized: uncompress streams compressed with a
   general-purpose compression algorithm. This is the default.
 - specialized: in addition to generalized, also uncompress
@@ -836,8 +836,8 @@ ap.addOptionHelp("--json-output", "json", "serialize to JSON", R"(--json-output[
 
 The output file will be qpdf JSON format at the given version.
 "version" may be a specific version or "latest" (the default).
-Version 1 is not supported. See also --json-stream-data
-and --json-stream-prefix.
+Version 1 is not supported. See also --json-stream-data,
+--json-stream-prefix, and --decode-level.
 )");
 ap.addOptionHelp("--json-input", "json", "input file is qpdf JSON", R"(Treat the input file as a JSON file in qpdf JSON format as
 written by qpdf --json-output. See the "QPDF JSON Format"

manual/cli.rst

@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ Related Options
 
       When uncompressing streams, control which types of compression
       schemes should be uncompressed:
-      - none: don't uncompress anything
+      - none: don't uncompress anything. This is the default with --json-output.
       - generalized: uncompress streams compressed with a
         general-purpose compression algorithm. This is the default.
       - specialized: in addition to generalized, also uncompress
@@ -867,14 +867,15 @@ Related Options
 
    The following values for :samp:`{parameter}` are available:
 
-   - :samp:`none`: do not attempt to decode any streams
+   - :samp:`none`: do not attempt to decode any streams. This is the
+     default with :qpdf:ref:`--json-output`.
 
    - :samp:`generalized`: decode streams filtered with supported
      generalized filters: ``/LZWDecode``, ``/FlateDecode``,
      ``/ASCII85Decode``, and ``/ASCIIHexDecode``. We define
      generalized filters as those to be used for general-purpose
      compression or encoding, as opposed to filters specifically
-     designed for image data.
+     designed for image data. This is the default.
 
    - :samp:`specialized`: in addition to generalized, decode streams
      with supported non-lossy specialized filters; currently this is
@@ -896,7 +897,9 @@ Related Options
    qpdf will recompress streams with generalized filters using flate
    compression, effectively eliminating LZW and ASCII-based filters.
    This is usually desirable behavior but can be disabled with
-   ``--decode-level=none``.
+   ``--decode-level=none``. Note that ``--decode-level=node`` is the
+   default when :qpdf:ref:`--json-output` is specified, but it can be
+   overridden in that case as well.
 
    As a special case, streams already compressed with ``/FlateDecode``
    are not uncompressed and recompressed. You can change this behavior
@@ -3264,13 +3267,18 @@ Related Options
 
       The output file will be qpdf JSON format at the given version.
       "version" may be a specific version or "latest" (the default).
-      Version 1 is not supported. See also --json-stream-data
-      and --json-stream-prefix.
+      Version 1 is not supported. See also --json-stream-data,
+      --json-stream-prefix, and --decode-level.
 
    The output file will be qpdf JSON format at the given version.
    ``version`` may be a specific version or ``latest`` (the default).
    Version 1 is not supported. See also :qpdf:ref:`--json-stream-data`
-   and :qpdf:ref:`--json-stream-prefix`.
+   and :qpdf:ref:`--json-stream-prefix`. The default decode level is
+   ``none``, but you can override it with :qpdf:ref:`--decode-level`.
+   If you want to look at the contents of streams easily as you would
+   in QDF mode (see :ref:`qdf`), you can use
+   ``--decode-level=generalized`` and ``--json-stream-data=file`` for
+   a convenient way to do that.
 
 .. qpdf:option:: --json-input
 

qpdf/qtest/json.test

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ foreach my $d (@json_files)
 
 $td->runtest("bad json stream data (inline)",
              {$td->COMMAND =>
-                  "qpdf --json-output=2" .
+                  "qpdf --json-output=2 --decode-level=all" .
                   " --json-stream-data=inline bad-data.pdf a.json"},
              {$td->FILE => "bad-data-json.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 3},
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ $td->runtest("check (inline)",
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 $td->runtest("bad json stream data (file)",
              {$td->COMMAND =>
-                  "qpdf --json-output=2 " .
+                  "qpdf --json-output=2 --decode-level=all" .
                   " --json-stream-data=file --json-stream-prefix=auto" .
                   " bad-data.pdf a.json"},
              {$td->FILE => "bad-data-json.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 3},

qpdf/qtest/qpdf-json.test

@@ -71,15 +71,14 @@ foreach my $i (@goodfiles)
     }
     # explicit "latest" as --json-output version
     $td->runtest("good: $f -> JSON",
-                 {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf $xargs --decode-level=none" .
+                 {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf $xargs" .
                       " --json-output=latest $f a.json"},
                  {$td->STRING => "", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
                  $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
     # default --json-output version
     $td->runtest("good: $f JSON -> JSON",
                  {$td->COMMAND =>
-                      "qpdf --decode-level=none" .
-                      " --json-input --json-output a.json b.json"},
+                      "qpdf --json-input --json-output a.json b.json"},
                  {$td->STRING => "", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
                  $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
     $td->runtest("good: $f JSON -> QDF",