json2lua – A command-line tool to convert JSON to Lua

See the copyright information in the file named COPYRIGHT.

Usage:

json2lua [options] < data.json > data.lua

Options:

-h    Print help
-v    Print script version
-n    Do not pretty-print Lua code (default: do pretty-print)
-wN   Set maximum pretty-print width to N chars (default: 80)
-iStr Set pretty-print indent to string (default: two spaces, '  ')
-N    Force object keys to be transformed to numbers
      whenever possible (default: off)
-e    Do not print terminating EOL (default: do print)
-r    Prefix data with 'return' (default: off)

Dependencies

luajson

All actual work on JSON data is done here.

sudo luarocks install luajson

lua-nucleo

Unfortunately, luajson.util.printValue() is too broken to be useful.

This project currently depends on lua-nucleo for pretty-printing of Lua data.

sudo luarocks install lua-nucleo 

Installation:

1. Install dependencies (see above).

2. Install json2lua:

A. Copy / symlink it somewhere in path

-- or --

B. Install it with LuaRocks:

Stable version:

  sudo luarocks install json2lua

Developer version:

  sudo luarocks install \
    json2lua \
    --from=http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks-cvs

Note that LuaRocks 2.0.2 and below reset executable bit on the installed binaries. To ensure that json2lua is executable, run following command after installation:

  sudo chmod +x $(command -v json2lua)

If you're using LuaRocks 2.0.3 and above, chmod is not needed.