Retrieves values from JSON objects for data binding. Offers params, nested queries, deep queries, custom reduce/filter functions and simple boolean logic.
Used internally by JSON Context for data binding.
$ npm install json-query
Specify a query and what to query - returns an object that describes the result of the query.
var jsonQuery = require('json-query')
var data = {
people: [
{name: 'Matt', country: 'NZ'},
{name: 'Pete', country: 'AU'}
]
}
jsonQuery('people[country=NZ].name', {
data: data
}) //=> {value: 'Matt', parents: [...], key: 0} ... etc
- data or rootContext: The main JS object to query.
- source or context (optional): The current object we're interested in. Is accessed in query by starting with
.
- parent (optional): An additional context for looking further up the tree. Is accessed by
..
- locals: Specify an object containing helper functions. Accessed by ':filterName'. Expects function(input, args...) with
this
set to original passed in options. - globals: Falls back to globals when no local function found.
- force (optional): Specify an object to be returned from the query if the query fails - it will be saved into the place the query expected the object to be.
Queries are strings that describe an object or value to pluck out, or manipulate from the context object. The syntax is a little bit CSS, a little bit JS, but pretty powerful.
person.name
people[0]
people[country=NZ]
person.greetingName|person.name
Search through multiple levels of Objects/Arrays
var data = {
grouped_people: {
'friends': [
{name: 'Steve', country: 'NZ'},
{name: 'Bob', country: 'US'}
],
'enemies': [
{name: 'Evil Steve', country: 'AU'}
]
}
}
jsonQuery('grouped_people[][country=NZ]', {data: data})
var data = {
page: {
id: 'page_1',
title: 'Test'
},
comments_lookup: {
'page_1': [
{id: 'comment_1', parent_id: 'page_1', content: "I am a comment"}
]
}
}
// get the comments that match page's id
jsonQuery('comments_lookup[{page.id}]', {data: data})
Allows to to hack the query system to do just about anything.
Some nicely contrived examples:
var locals = {
greetingName: function(input){
if (input.knownAs){
return input.known_as
} else {
return input.name
}
}
},
and: function(inputA, inputB){
return inputA && inputB
},
text: function(input, text){
return text
},
then: function(input, thenValue, elseValue){
if (input){
return thenValue
} else {
return elseValue
}
}
}
var data = {
is_fullscreen: true,
is_playing: false,
user: {
name: "Matthew McKegg",
known_as: "Matt"
}
}
jsonQuery('user:greetingName', {
data: data, locals: locals
}).value //=> "Matt"
jsonQuery(['is_fullscreen:and({is_playing}):then(?, ?)', "Playing big!", "Not so much"], {
data: data, locals: locals
}).value //=> "Not so much"
jsonQuery(':text(This displays text cos we made it so)', {
locals: locals
}).value //=> "This displays text cos we made it so"
Specifying context ('data', 'source', and 'parent' options) is good for databinding and working on a specific object and still keeping the big picture available.
var data = {
styles: {
bold: 'font-weight:strong',
red: 'color: red'
},
paragraphs: [
{content: "I am a red paragraph", style: 'red'},
{content: "I am a bold paragraph", style: 'bold'},
],
}
var pageHtml = ''
data.paragraphs.forEach(function(paragraph){
var style = jsonQuery('styles[{.style}]', {data: data, source: paragraph}).value
var content = jsonQuery('.content', data: data, source: paragraph) // pretty pointless :)
pageHtml += "<p style='" + style "'>" + content + "</p>"
})
Params can be specified by passing in an array with the first param the query (with ? params) and subsequent params.
jsonQuery(['people[country=?]', 'NZ'])
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