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Filter JSON with regexen and display the complete path of keys to the results. Streaming-friendly.

When you know roughly what you need, but you can't remember the path to get there.

Given some nested JSON, my.json:

 {
   "foo": {
     "bar": {
       "zip": "val1",
       "zap": "val2",
       "arr": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
     }
   },
   "quux": {
     "zip": "val"
   }
 }

Filter by regex matching key with -k:

 $ cat my.json | jsong -k 'z\wp'

 foo.bar.zip: val1
 foo.bar.zap: val2
 quux.zip: val

It will return everything nested below a matching key:

$ cat my.json | jsong -k fo

foo.bar.zip: val1
foo.bar.zap: val2

Filter by regex matching value with -v:

$ cat my.json | jsong -v 'val\d'

foo.bar.zip: val1
foo.bar.zap: val2

Filter by regex matching key or value with -a:

$ cat my.json | jsong -a '[\w]{4}'

foo.bar.zip: val1
foo.bar.zap: val2
quux.zip: val

It will show paths including array indices:

$ cat my.json | jsong -v 5

foo.bar.arr[4]: 5

An empty document will return a special message:

$ echo '{}' | jsong

<empty>

Empty arrays and object literals will be rendered sensibly:

$ echo '{"foo": [[{}, []]]}' | jsong

foo[0][0]: {}
foo[0][1]: []

Requirements

  • nodejs
  • npm

Installation

It usually makes sense to install jsong globally so all users can use it:

$ npm install -g jsong

Usage

`jsong [filename] [options]`

If no filename is given, jsong reads from STDIN.

Filtering is disjunctive - the result will be displayed if at least one of the filters match.

Depending on the vagaries of your shell, you may have to single-quote your regexen.

Options

  • -k, --key: optional regex, default null

Display result line if any of the keys match the regex.

  • -v, --value: optional regex, default null

Display result line if the value matches the regex.

  • -a, --any: optional regex, default null

Display path of keys/array indices to values if any of the keys or the value match the regex.

  • -h, --help: display help

Testing and development

jsong usescucumber and the Ruby library aruba for acceptance testing.

Clone the repo and run:

$ bundle install
$ cucumber

Or for continuous testing:

$ guard    

Author

Dave Nolan

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