UniQuery

Unified query language for various commonly used data representation formats (JSON, XML, YAML, etc.)

Usage

Install Go and run go run cmd/uniquery/main.go -h to get information about available flags and their meaning.

Query Syntax

Please see query examples for rough query syntax explanation.

Data Format Support

Format	Support	Notes
JSON	✔️ Yes	Works according to tests.
YAML	❓ Partial	Not very well tested yet.
XML	❌ No	More complicated than JSON and YAML.
CSV	❌ No	Support is not currently planned.

Example (JSON)

Consider the following JSON file users.json, which maps real names to nicknames.

{
    "alice80": "Alice Yang",
    "bob12": "Bob Jacobs",
    "tank": "Charlie Peterson"
}

Query	Result
empty query	root element / whole data structure
alice80	"Alice Yang"
tank	"Charlie Peterson"
*	["Alice Yang", "Bob Jacobs", "Charlie Peterson"]
alice80.	root element (parent of alice80)