Not serializable PosixPath when exporting JSON #657
Description
Exporting the JSON (using --export-json) for some projects (e.g. examples/vhdl/run) throws the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/tom/git/vunit/vunit/ui/__init__.py", line 726, in main
all_ok = self._main(post_run)
File "/home/tom/git/vunit/vunit/ui/__init__.py", line 761, in _main
return self._main_export_json(self._args.export_json)
File "/home/tom/git/vunit/vunit/ui/__init__.py", line 892, in _main_export_json
json.dump(json_data, fptr, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": "))
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 179, in dump
for chunk in iterable:
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 431, in _iterencode
yield from _iterencode_dict(o, _current_indent_level)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 405, in _iterencode_dict
yield from chunks
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 325, in _iterencode_list
yield from chunks
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 405, in _iterencode_dict
yield from chunks
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 405, in _iterencode_dict
yield from chunks
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 438, in _iterencode
o = _default(o)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/json/encoder.py", line 179, in default
raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} '
TypeError: Object of type PosixPath is not JSON serializableThis is when running on Linux, but it seems to be a problem on Windows as well.