Just a simple change to make sonic's user life a little bit easier. Displaying the multiple elements of config_db.json in an orderly fashion allows a more intuitive user-experience.
For this change i'm simply intercepting the config-state that is about to be dumped to config_db.json, and i'm placing it in an ordered-dictionary, so that information is pushed to file in natural/alphanumerical ordering.
Example:
admin@lnos-x1-a-csw01:~$ sudo sonic-cfggen -m /etc/sonic/minigraph.xml --print-data
{
...
"PORT": {
"Ethernet0": {
"alias": "Eth1/1",
"lanes": "65"
},
"Ethernet1": {
"alias": "Eth1/2",
"lanes": "66"
},
"Ethernet2": {
"alias": "Eth1/3",
"lanes": "67"
},
"Ethernet3": {
"alias": "Eth1/4",
"lanes": "68"
},
"Ethernet4": {
"alias": "Eth2/1",
"lanes": "69"
},
...
...
"INTERFACE": {
"Ethernet0|10.0.0.0/31": {},
"Ethernet1|10.0.0.2/31": {},
"Ethernet2|10.0.0.4/31": {},
"Ethernet3|10.0.0.6/31": {},
"Ethernet4|10.0.0.8/31": {},
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