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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - json schema does not support comments on tables"
   href="https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670">1670</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>json schema does not support comments on tables
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>nftables
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>1.0.x
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>x86_64
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>minor
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P5
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>nft
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>pablo@netfilter.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>danw@redhat.com
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        <pre>If you add a table with a comment, the comment shows up in "nft list" but not
in "nft -j list":

$ nft add table inet test3 '{comment "this is a comment";}'
$ nft list table inet test3
table inet test3 {
    comment "this is a comment"
}
$ nft -j list table inet test3
{"nftables": [{"metainfo": {"version": "1.0.1", "release_name": "Fearless
Fosdick #3", "json_schema_version": 1}}, {"table": {"family": "inet", "name":
"test3", "handle": 5}}]}
$

If you try to add a table with a comment via json, the comment is ignored:

$ nft -j -f -
{ "nftables": [ { "add": { "table": { "family": "inet", "name": "test4",
"comment": "<a href="show_bug.cgi?id=1670#c4">comment4</a>" } } } ] }
^D
$ nft list table inet test4
table inet test4 {
}
$</pre>
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