Extend JSON output to include linked issue & other metadata

[preslavmihaylov]

Currently, the json output includes only part of the info specified by todocheck's output for closed issues.

E.g. the output for // TODO 2: a closed issue is:

[
  {
    "type": "Issue is closed",
    "filename": "main.go",
    "line": 5,
    "message": ""
  }
]

in this case, the linked issue is not included in the output.

How to solve this?

Add a new field metadata which accepts any arbitrary string-string key-value pairs.

The reason for the new field is to enable future extensions to the messages without breaking backwards compatibility.

In this case, the whole output should look like:

[
  {
    "type": "Issue is closed",
    "filename": "main.go",
    "line": 5,
    "message": ""
    "metadata": {
        "issueID": "2"    
    }
  }
]

[abhishekchopra0907]

hey @preslavmihaylov I would like to handle this issue could you assign me this issue

[preslavmihaylov]

@abhishekchopra0907 it seems @bengsparks is already working on this. Perhaps you can check out #165