JSON Path

A go package and a set of utilities for interacting with arbitrary JSON data.

Example usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/xyproto/jpath"
    "log"
)

func main() {
    // Some JSON
    data := []byte(`{"a":2, "b":3, "people":{"names": ["Bob", "Alice"]}}`)

    // Create a new *jpath.Node
    document, err := jpath.New(data)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    // Retrieve the value of "a", as an int
    val := document.Get("a").Int()
    fmt.Println("a is", val)

    // Retrieve the first name, using a path expression
    name := document.GetNode(".people.names[0]").String()
    fmt.Println("The name is", name)
}

Installation

go get github.com/xyproto/jpath/cmd/...

Path expressions

Several of the available functions takes a simple JSON path expression, like x.books[1].author. Only simple expressions using x for the root node, names and integer indexes are supported as part of the path. For more advanced JSON path expressions, see this blog post.

The SetBranch method for the Node struct also provides a way of accessing JSON nodes, where the JSON names are supplied as a slice of strings.

Utilities

Four small utilities for interacting with JSON files are included. Note that these deals with strings only, not numbers or anything else!

• jget - for retrieving a string value from a JSON file. Takes a filename and a simple JSON path expression.
  • Example: jget books.json x[1].author
• jset - for setting JSON string values in a JSON file. Takes a filename, simple JSON path expression and a string.
  • Example: jset books.json x[1].author Suzanne
• jdel - for removing a key from a map in a JSON file. Takes a filename and a simple JSON path expression.
  • Example: jdel abc.json b
• jadd - for adding JSON data to a JSON file. Takes a filename, simple JSON path expression and JSON data.
  • Example: jadd books.json x '{"author": "Joan Grass", "book": "The joys of gardening"}'

General information

• Version: 0.6.1
• License: BSD-3
• Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>