Commit 0605d53f authored by Bob Williams's avatar Bob Williams
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adding urlencode_json and associated README.md details

parent 982b534c
...@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ Handy command line tools for dealing with json data. ...@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ Handy command line tools for dealing with json data.
- **pp_json** - pretty prints json - **pp_json** - pretty prints json
- **is_json** - returns true if valid json; false otherwise - **is_json** - returns true if valid json; false otherwise
- **urlencode_json** - returns a url encoded string for the given json
## Usage
Usage is simple...just take your json data and pipe it into the appropriate jsontool.
```sh
<json data> | <jsontools tool>
```
## Examples ## Examples
##### pp_json ##### pp_json
...@@ -14,22 +20,16 @@ Handy command line tools for dealing with json data. ...@@ -14,22 +20,16 @@ Handy command line tools for dealing with json data.
```sh ```sh
# curl json data and pretty print the results # curl json data and pretty print the results
curl https://coderwall.com/bobwilliams.json | pp_json curl https://coderwall.com/bobwilliams.json | pp_json
# pretty print the contents of an existing json file
less data.json | pp_json
# json data directly from the command line
echo '{"b":2, "a":1}' | pp_json
``` ```
##### is_json ##### is_json
```sh ```sh
# curl json data and pretty print the results
curl https://coderwall.com/bobwilliams.json | is_json
# pretty print the contents of an existing json file # pretty print the contents of an existing json file
less data.json | is_json less data.json | is_json
```
##### urlencode_json
```sh
# json data directly from the command line # json data directly from the command line
echo '{"b":2, "a":1}' | is_json echo '{"b":2, "a":1}' | urlencode_json
``` ```
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...@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ fi ...@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ fi
if [[ $(whence node) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xnode" ) ]]; then if [[ $(whence node) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xnode" ) ]]; then
alias pp_json='xargs -0 node -e "console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(process.argv[1]), null, 4));"' alias pp_json='xargs -0 node -e "console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(process.argv[1]), null, 4));"'
alias is_json='xargs -0 node -e "try {json = JSON.parse(process.argv[1]);} catch (e) { console.log(false); json = null; } if(json) { console.log(true); }"' alias is_json='xargs -0 node -e "try {json = JSON.parse(process.argv[1]);} catch (e) { console.log(false); json = null; } if(json) { console.log(true); }"'
alias urlencode_json='xargs -0 node -e "console.log(encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(process.argv[1])))"'
elif [[ $(whence python) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xpython" ) ]]; then elif [[ $(whence python) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xpython" ) ]]; then
alias pp_json='python -mjson.tool' alias pp_json='python -mjson.tool'
alias is_json='python -c " alias is_json='python -c "
...@@ -18,10 +19,15 @@ except ValueError, e: ...@@ -18,10 +19,15 @@ except ValueError, e:
print False print False
else: else:
print True print True
sys.exit(0)"'
alias urlencode_json='python -c "
import urllib, json, sys;
print urllib.quote_plus(json.dumps(sys.stdin.read()))
sys.exit(0)"' sys.exit(0)"'
elif [[ $(whence ruby) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xruby" ) ]]; then elif [[ $(whence ruby) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xruby" ) ]]; then
alias pp_json='ruby -e "require \"json\"; require \"yaml\"; puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read).to_yaml"' alias pp_json='ruby -e "require \"json\"; require \"yaml\"; puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read).to_yaml"'
alias is_json='ruby -e "require \"json\"; begin; JSON.parse(STDIN.read); puts true; rescue Exception => e; puts false; end"' alias is_json='ruby -e "require \"json\"; begin; JSON.parse(STDIN.read); puts true; rescue Exception => e; puts false; end"'
alias urlencode_json='ruby -e "require \"uri\"; puts URI.escape(STDIN.read)"'
fi fi
unset JSONTOOLS_METHOD unset JSONTOOLS_METHOD
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