From 934e67d146bc876c43a0328a3902a70d0920dacf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Fontanet <julien.fontanet@isonoe.net>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 12:57:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document JSON syntax

---
 packages/xo-cli/README.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/xo-cli/README.md b/packages/xo-cli/README.md
index 49fcd65e4..240640037 100644
--- a/packages/xo-cli/README.md
+++ b/packages/xo-cli/README.md
@@ -84,6 +84,14 @@ E.g., adding a new server:
 
 The return value is the identifier of this new server in XO.
 
+Parameters (except `true` and `false` which are correctly parsed as
+booleans) are assumed to be strings, for other types, you may use JSON
+encoding by prefixing with `json:`:
+
+```
+> xo-cli foo.bar baz='json:[1, 2, 3]'
+```
+
 ##### VM export
 
 ```