Jazor

Jazor (JSON razor) is a simple command line JSON parsing tool.

gem install jazor

jazor [options] [source] [expression ...]

See the --help command line option.

The source argument refers to a file, URL or string containing a JSON object. Since attempts to implement a full-featured HTTP client within Jazor would have been futile, Jazor also accepts input from STDIN. This means if you ever need to use an advanced HTTP option that Jazor doesn't implement, you can always use a real HTTP client (e.g. cURL) and simply pipe the output to Jazor.

Jazor accepts one or more Ruby expressions which are simply eval'ed within the context of your JSON object. After Jazor parses your JSON input into native Ruby data types (Hash, Array, etc.), these expressions are used to slice and dice the data any way you want. The results will be "pretty printed" to STDOUT.

Note that hash keys can be accessed via standard Ruby (e.g. foo['bar'], foo.fetch('bar'), etc.) or Javascript (e.g. foo.bar) syntax.

Expression testing (--test) allows you to test the "truthiness" of your expression results. If any expression returns a "falsy" value, Jazor will exit with a non-zero return code. This is useful for calling Jazor from within shell scripts.

$ jazor http://github.com/api/v2/json/commits/list/mconigliaro/jazor/master commits.count
16

$ curl --silent http://github.com/api/v2/json/commits/list/mconigliaro/jazor/master | jazor commits.last.message
initial commit

$ jazor '{ "foo": "abc", "bar": [1, 2, 3] }' 'foo.split(//)'
["a", "b", "c"]

$ jazor '{ "foo": "abc", "bar": [1, 2, 3] }' 'bar.inject { |memo,obj| memo + obj }'
6

$ jazor '[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]' 'select(&:even?)'
[2, 4]

$ jazor '[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]' 'select(&:odd?)'
[1, 3, 5]

$ jazor '["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]' 'self[1..3]'
["b", "c", "d"]

$ jazor '[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]' "'odds=%s; evens=%s' % [select(&:odd?).join(','), select(&:even?).join(',')]"
odds=1,3,5; evens=2,4

• Convert tests from RSpec to MiniTest

• Add term-ansicolor to dependencies in gemspec
• Don't quote strings returned from an expression

• Add --colorize option
• Bug fixes

• Add --quirks-mode option
• Update all dependencies
• Refactoring

• Handle HTTPS URLs
• Use .rvmrc and Bundler in project
• Convert tests from Test::Unit to RSpec

• Apply sort after evaluating expression

• Added sort option (Dan Hopkins)

• Code refactoring
• Documentation rewrite
• Changed test option to a switch that operates on all expressions

• Print help summary on absence of input
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Initial public release

Copyright (C) 2012 Michael Paul Thomas Conigliaro

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

• Michael Paul Thomas Conigliaro: Original author
• Daniel Hopkins: Sorted output