This is a simple command line JSON parser that reads JSON from standard input and prints it out with agreeable formatting. The following snippet demonstrates usage of the tool.
$ echo '{ "hello": "world", "example": [1, 2, 3, true, false, null] }' | json
{
"hello": "world",
"example": [
1,
2,
3,
true,
false,
null
]
}The tool can be downloaded from the Releases page. It can also be installed from source using the Rust toolchain, available here. Once the Rust toolchain is set up, run the following command from within the root directory of this project.
cargo install --path .The parsing functionality is not available as a standalone library, which makes it of little use to other software for the time being. In addition, the parsing is done using unoptimized recursion which will lead to stack overflow in the case of oversized input. Further, the JSON value construct that is returned by the parser is traversable but otherwise not particularly ergonomic to use.