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Why not jq, then?

• danielhlockard 8y ago
  jq is a json parsing tool, no?
  • roganartu 8y ago
    A very powerful one. You could in theory stream multiple files into jq and have it output effectively arbitrary JSON based on their contents since it supports conditionals. I don't think it would be very pretty since it's not designed for that use case, but the jq language is certainly powerful enough to allow it.
  • fiatjaf 8y ago
    It can be used to generate JSON using functions, input data, conditional expressions and anything you want.
• babo 8y ago
  With a deep enough JSON structure with similar enough items, the jq expressions are hard to make or maintain. This is a real world example: jq '.sourceSelectionTrees[].rootNode.children[].children' | jq '.[]? | .action.attributeMapping.attributeSources' | jq -r '.[]? | select(.type == "XYZ") | .dataRef.id'