Discussion/Feature: Print out structured data from unstructured inputs about conftest HOT 3 CLOSED

I like the idea. I indeed often encountered the need to debug conftest in order to determine the internal representation of certain parsed objects. It is easy to reason about for JSON and Yaml, but indeed for things like Dockerfiles it is hard to reason about.

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I like the sound of this, I've run into the same with some of the more interesting input formats.

I think this sounds more like a subcommand than a flag to me? Most of the flags for test don't apply, and it's not related to the policy folder at all. A few initial thoughts:

• conftest reveal
• conftest parse

Slight preference maybe for the later, but open to other suggestions as well.

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I liked the different subcommand idea and: conftest parse.

Then usage will be like this,
conftest parse <file>
conftest parse <file> -i <option>

I'm going to start to work on this PR but this will take some time until it gets ready, if you have more ideas, may write to me.

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