test.sh

#!/bin/bash

declare -A object_counts=( [spokes_network]=0 [spokes_gist]=0 [pages]=0 [storage]=0 )

assoc2json() {
  declare -n dict=$1
  for key in "${!dict[@]}"; do
    printf '%s\0%s\0' "$key" "${dict[$key]}"
  done |
  jq -Rs '
    split("\u0000")
    | . as $a
    | reduce range(0; length/2) as $i
        ({}; . + {($a[2*$i]): ($a[2*$i + 1]|fromjson? // .)})'
}

emit_evacuation() {
  jq -n -c \
    --arg st "$(assoc2json object_counts)" \
    --arg et "$SECONDS"          \
    '{
      "stage": "Evacuating GitHub data",
      "services": $st | fromjson,
      "elapsed_time": $et | tonumber,
    }'
}

emit_evacuation