jq doesn't work

[m-titov]

 curl https://wttr.in/Detroit\?format\=j1 | jq '.weather|.[].date'                                  [2022-05-19 23:58:52]
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 48898  100 48898    0     0   112k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  115k
"2022-05-19"
"2022-05-20"
"2022-05-21"

works as expected but Virtual Json Viewer plugin throws Unexpected string in JSON at position 13 error for the same expression:
.weather|.[].date

See also https://jqplay.org/s/DHmRZozMOj9
Could you please fix it and make my life easier?

[paolosimone]

Hi @m-titov, first of all thanks for using my plugin!

TLDR;

use .weather | map(.date) instead

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Complete explanation

Virtual Json Viewer is a plugin to render json in the browser, so jq commands must output a valid json.

Unfortunately the following is not a valid json array

"2022-05-19"
"2022-05-20"
"2022-05-21"

While this is

curl -s https://wttr.in/Detroit\?format\=j1 | jq '.weather | map(.date)'
[
  "2022-05-20",
  "2022-05-21",
  "2022-05-22"
]

[paolosimone]

Since this behaviour is a bit tricky I added a more in-depth section to the readme

https://github.com/paolosimone/virtual-json-viewer#notes-on-jq