jsonfilter

jsonfilter is an utility for filtering and selecting values from a json object.

• Latest Release

Install

download (latest successful build from drone.io) to /usr/local/bin

wget https://drone.io/github.com/benschw/jsonfilter/files/jsonfilter-`uname`-`uname -m`.gz 
gunzip jsonfilter-`uname`-`uname -m`.gz 
chmod +x jsonfilter-`uname`-`uname -m`
sudo mv jsonfilter-`uname`-`uname -m` /usr/local/bin/jsonfilter

or get the .deb

wget https://drone.io/github.com/benschw/jsonfilter/files/jsonfilter-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg --install jsonfilter.deb

or from the Package Repository (for debian machines like ubuntu)

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://dl.bintray.com/benschw/deb wheezy main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jsonfilter

Examples

examples guaranteed up to date by cli-unit.

wednesday.json

{
	"Name": "Wednesday",
	"Age": 6,
	"Parents": [{
		"Relation": "father",
		"Name": "Gomez"
	},{
		"Relation": "mother",
		"Name": "Morticia"
	}],
	"Address": {
		"Street": "0001 Cemetery Lane",
		"City": "New York",
		"State": "New York"
	},
	"Hobbies": [
		"homicide",
		"playing with her headless Marie Antoinette doll",
		"spiders"
	]
}

suite: jsonfilter examples

test: should exit 0 when selector is found

when:

cat ./wednesday.json | ./build/output/jsonfilter Address.Street > /dev/null && echo found

then:

found

test: should drill down when using compound selector

when:

cat ./wednesday.json | ./build/output/jsonfilter Address.Street

then:

0001 Cemetery Lane

test: -values should output values in an array

when:

cat ./wednesday.json | ./build/output/jsonfilter -values Hobbies

then:

homicide
playing with her headless Marie Antoinette doll
spiders