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sure can do, if you already use that shell [1], but personally I like specific tools for specific jobs such as jq [2], fx, csvq [3] etc, there's value in decoupling shells from utils (modularity, speed, innovation etc).
[1] I don't but tempted to try, like its data-types concept
[2] https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
[3] https://github.com/mithrandie/csvq
You may be interested in an interactive jq tool like jiq or others: https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq (do a ctrl-f for "interactive" on this page).
I ended up converting it to a JSON with a one-off Python script, and then using fx for the viewing. It worked very well! Thank you for the tool!
(Incidentally, I’ve been writing my own viewer [0] to satisfy my original need more straightforwardly, but that’s still in very early stages.)
[0]: https://github.com/nathell/treeviewer
sure can do, if you already use that shell [1], but personally I like specific tools for specific jobs such as jq [2], fx, csvq [3] etc, there's value in decoupling shells from utils (modularity, speed, innovation etc).
[1] I don't but tempted to try, like its data-types concept
[2] https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
[3] https://github.com/mithrandie/csvq
Pretty cool! I actually wrote something VERY similar a couple of years ago: sless[1]. It's a tool for viewing json-based structured logs. Just like your tool, you can explore into a json object. The difference is, it expects the input to have many json objects, newline separated, and it shows few keys as a preview of the object, to make looking for something in the log easier. It's not quite complete but basic browsing works. It was mainly written to learn more about Urwid[2], a library similar to Curses.
1: https://github.com/dpedu2/sless
2: https://urwid.org/
Pretty cool! I actually wrote something VERY similar a couple of years ago: sless[1]. It's a tool for viewing json-based structured logs. Just like your tool, you can explore into a json object. The difference is, it expects the input to have many json objects, newline separated, and it shows few keys as a preview of the object, to make looking for something in the log easier. It's not quite complete but basic browsing works. It was mainly written to learn more about Urwid[2], a library similar to Curses.
1: https://github.com/dpedu2/sless
2: https://urwid.org/
This fx rewrite is very exciting. I'll have to try it. I thought of fx as a wrapper around jq, that allowed quick iteration over building jq scripts. Sort of an Ultimate Plumber [1] but only for jq. It looks like it is now more like a JavaScript processor plus an interactive viewer.
Someone mention Visidata[2]? VisiData is also a TUI that is great on tabular data, and it can work with json. If your JSON is mostly tabular in nature, Visidata does a great job at showing that data and allowing you to explore it. A lot of json I deal with is tabular-like data. There is a great tutorial [3], that can help you get your bearings with Visidata. Once you understand those basics you might want to look at this thread [4] for what commands you can use with json.
[1] Ultimate Plumber: https://github.com/akavel/up
[4] "Is it possible to "flatten" structured data (like JSON?)": https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/1605