[mos_basik]

On phone so unsure if it's been mentioned in the thread already, but I've been enjoying learning a js library JSONata [0] after finding it included in Node-RED.

I remember finding jq a few weeks ago and thinking "wow, this will probably come in handy for a specific kind of situation" and filing it mentally for later use, but I haven't used it for anything yet so I'm not super familiar with the extent of it's features.

I have been using a lot of JSONata one liners to replace several procedural functions that were doing data transforms on JSON objects, and I'm very impressed. It's a querying library but it's Turing complete - it has lambdas, it can save references to data and functions as variables, etc.

It also seems relatively new/unknown; I've found hardly any blogs or forums mentioning it. The developer is active - he fixed a bug report I submitted in less then a day.

I'd love to have that kind of functionality in a CLI tool. Maybe jq is equally powerful, I don't know.

I haven't had time to run any performance analysis on JSONata and haven't found anyone else online who's done any yet. I'm very curious how its queries compare to efficiently implemented procedural approaches.

0: http://jsonata.org/

[elcritch]

Thanks! Will have to try out `jsonata`, as `jq` never clicked for me (too complex). Alternately I've been using a node.js program `json` [1] which has a basic but straightforward cli which covers 95% of my daily needs. I believe I found after trying to figure out the tool Joyent.com uses in there SmartOS sysadmin setup. Not sure if it's the exact same tool, but it's very similar.

As an example, basic manipulation is just:

`echo '{"age":10}' | json -e 'this.age++' #=> {"age": 11}`

1: https://github.com/trentm/json