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Sometimes I have to work with janky JSON-like objects that aren't quite valid JSON and I couldn't find any parsers that pretty-print invalid JSON. Now there is one!
cat ./janky.json | ./pretty_printer
rspec
- supresses non-quoted whitespace for prettiness purposes
- skips newline characters for further prettification
- automatically inserts a space after colons in
"key": "value"pairs - prints 4 spaces (not tabs!) when indenting
Since it takes data as a stream, it's harder to make sure that all special non-quoted values are correct (true, false, null, and numbers). This project doesn't even bother - it will print what you give it. It will only attempt to prettify the output by assuming that the format is JSON-like.
It will not corrupt valid JSON - just reformat it. The printer take some liberties with whitespae for the purposes of prettification.
I gladly accept pull requests!
And, as always, use at your own risk.
- validate your input
- break on invalid json
- hurt your feelings