[sly010]

IMHO any tool that converts JSON to JSON is pointing to the wrong direction.

Json should strictly be used as a serialization format and everyone who touches it should immediately parse it into a typed data-structure that represents your domain better.

In fact you really should represent your data in your code using whatever native object hierarchy / algebraic data types / option types / etc. your language supports. (Algebraic datatypes are awesome at this sort of thing, it allows you to avoid the aforementioned conditionality)

The problem is the right way to do this is also the hard way, because people hate writing "boilerplate" classes and serialization code and once you start thinking about making it "easy", you end up using json as the in-application data structure because "who needs types anyway".

[earthboundkid]

You are very correct. Boilerplate (de)serialization code is 100x better to have to write than code with JSON-blobs pretending to be business objects.