meowj

displays json in a flat format.

note: still a very new project, no --help or anything yet, also recusrive instead of iterative.

Install

Via Cargo

sh cargo install meowj

Usage

sh cat example.json | meowj

or

sh meowj example.json

example.json

json { "array": [ 1, 2, 3 ], "boolean": true, "color": "#82b92c", "null": null, "number": 123, "object": { "a": "b", "c": "d", "e": "f" }, "string": "Hello World" }

meowj output

txt .array[0] = 1 .array[1] = 2 .array[2] = 3 .boolean = true .color = "#82b92c" .null = null .number = 123 .object.a = "b" .object.c = "d" .object.e = "f" .string = "Hello World"

Benchmarks

Using this test data:

sh curl "https://data.nasa.gov/resource/y77d-th95.json" > earth_meteorite_landings.json

| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative | |:---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | meowj earth_meteorite_landings.json | 21.5 ± 1.4 | 20.4 | 30.9 | 1.0 | | gron earth_meteorite_landings.json | 60.3 ± 2.7 | 54.1 | 65.2 | 2.8 | | catj earth_meteorite_landings.json | 218.5 ± 7.9 | 207.6 | 231.6 | 10.2 |

Alternatives

• catj - pretty much the same thing - https://github.com/soheilpro/catj/blob/master/catj.js - Node/NPM
• tabbyj - also similar - https://github.com/nint8835/tabbyj - Python
• gron - much more features, such as going backwards given the output of itself, which is quite neat - https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron - Go

initially inspired by catj, but without dependencies on node/npm