rektide / 2json

Convert lines of stdin to JSON

2json Stdin to JSON Converter

It is a set of raw, primitive brute instruments to drag the dead ancient pre-connected "on-line"/command console world into a place where jq may be used, where selection can begin to mean something.

2json converts stdin to json which it streams to stdout, in it's most basic use turning lines into single array elements. 2json has a number of options to allow cutting up columnar data as well. In addition to 2json proper, there are also a number of tools:

Parsers

• 2json which converts unmarked text lines to elements of an array
• it a shortcut for 2json
• itenc which will encode individual lines of text into javascript primitives

Encasers

• ita encases whatever stdin it's passed inside an array
• ito encases whatever stdin it's passed inside an object
• itp encases whatever stdin it's passed inside an expression evaluation (the global "callback" by default), forming a basic jsonp stanza generator

Helpers

• itirc calls 2json with paramters set for reading a common irssi screen log
• ansit is an encaser o, making an object, using "ansible_facts" for the slot name

Hat Tips

This is a very small, simple work. It was made possible by:

ansible, which is one of the first console programs i've slammed up into being unprepared to hand over json

termkit, which made a formative point that pipes might do well to adopt structure on which to lay semantics then data

dolor, of earth and air

Good Software

jq yaml2json