Remove quotations marks requirement for selectors

[janaakhterov]

Personally, I expect jq 'message' text.json to work, but I'm required to do jq '"message"' text.json instead which seems kinda pointless. Is this a potential feature/QoL improvement?

[yamafaktory]

I guess you mean jql not jq which is another tool :)

The reason is that people tend to forget about special characters in JSON https://github.com/yamafaktory/jql#special-characters

jq doesn't work out-of-the-box for those corner cases and you need to use some wizardry, see jqlang/jq#140. That's why jql does it like that, it always works, no matter what you inject but at the cost of having single quotes around.

I'm closing it as I have no plan to change the way it was designed.

[HenkPoley]

Anyways, on your benchmark page, the last jql item is not equivalent to jq due to the quotes requirement: https://github.com/yamafaktory/jql/blob/master/PERFORMANCE.md

[yamafaktory]

@HenkPoley good point! it should be echo '{ "foo": "bar" }' | jql '."foo"'... will fix!