Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by Novalty93 » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML
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Re: Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by Novalty93 » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

I've been working on a tool to query/update data structures from the commandline. It's comparable to jq/yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML. I'm not aware of anything that attempted to do this so I rolled my own. Let me know what you think

Re: Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by onetom » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

Novalty93 wrote: post #2

I've been working on a tool to query/update data structures from the commandline. It's comparable to jq/yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML. I'm not aware of anything that attempted to do this so I rolled my own. Let me know what you think

Only if it would support EDN (https://github.com/edn-format/edn) too... :) Although I was satisfied with Jet (https://github.com/borkdude/jet) so far.

Re: Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by js4ever » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

Really nice, I can see several use case where a simple bash script + Dasel would save me some higher level coding. I will try it soon! Thanks

Re: Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by jph » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

Great work! I can totally see the usefulness of this. And your examples of `dasel` side-by-side with `jq` and `yq` are very much appreciated because you're making it easy to learn.

Re: Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by hyperman1 » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

Novalty93 wrote: post #2

I've been working on a tool to query/update data structures from the commandline. It's comparable to jq/yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML. I'm not aware of anything that attempted to do this so I rolled my own. Let me know what you think

This seems very handy, thank you very much.

It would be great if it could support perfect roundtripping: Comments, ordering, whitespace,... are not touched. It would make fearless updating of config files a breeze.

This I understand would be a huge undertaking, requiring writing your own parsers.

Not that I want to be ungratefull. This looks a very usefull tool as is.

Re: Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

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Post by baq » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 6:29 PM UTC

yaml for configuration really should die a fiery death. any tool that helps work with it before that happens is very welcome.