From 71e9337bdba5f9e7ea9c8bb10ccfce0aa9cbd827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Gulliver <git@flamingcow.io>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:09:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Omit empty ips arrays from interface JSON

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 types.go | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/types.go b/types.go
index db5a2f0..c5c8b04 100644
--- a/types.go
+++ b/types.go
@@ -354,10 +354,29 @@ func (m InterfaceMap) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 type Interface struct {
 	Name  string          `json:"name,omitempty"`
 	MAC   MAC             `json:"mac"`
-	IPs   IPSet           `json:"ips"`
+	IPs   IPSet           `json:"ips,omitempty"`
 	Stats *InterfaceStats `json:"stats,omitempty"`
 }
 
+func (i *Interface) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	type ifaceJSON struct {
+		Name  string          `json:"name,omitempty"`
+		MAC   MAC             `json:"mac"`
+		IPs   []string        `json:"ips,omitempty"`
+		Stats *InterfaceStats `json:"stats,omitempty"`
+	}
+	var ips []string
+	if len(i.IPs) > 0 {
+		ips = i.IPs.Slice()
+	}
+	return json.Marshal(ifaceJSON{
+		Name:  i.Name,
+		MAC:   i.MAC,
+		IPs:   ips,
+		Stats: i.Stats,
+	})
+}
+
 type InterfaceStats struct {
 	Speed        uint64    `json:"speed,omitempty"`
 	InErrors     uint64    `json:"in_errors,omitempty"`