JSON responses contain key with dot in 'kibana.version'

[andrewkroh]

The response from the /package endpoint uses a key name that contains a dot. It's not common to use field names that contain dots and this might lead to confusion when processing the response data. For example the elastic-package tool would not unmarshal this field if it were returned.

Example: https://epr.elastic.co/package/gcp/1.1.0/

  "conditions": {
    "kibana.version": "^7.15.0"
  },

My preferred representation would be

  "conditions": {
    "kibana": {
      "version": "^7.15.0"
    }
  },

It should be easy to fix the package-registry, but changing it could break clients. So are there any clients using this field? I can check Kibana, but is that the only user?

[andrewkroh]

I did a search in Kibana and didn't find anything reading the value. Probably it has no need to read the value because it can query using ?kibana.version and receive results that are already filtered.

[ruflin]

I assume you are right but lets @joshdover confirm it. There are some scripts that use the API but I doubt any of these uses the "output" value at the moment.