Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
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Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
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#2jq seems incredibly powerful. I only find myself using it a few times a year though, and have never been able to conceptualize the syntax enough to use it without prodigious googling.
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#3jq is a fantastic tool for exploring data and doing simple transformations. I often wish it could consume/write data in other formats.
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#4JQ is often frustrating when you want to do something non-trivial but you can't figure out how and the documentation is of little help.
I think JQ could really benefit from having a classic programming language style "book", like "The AWK Programming Language". JQ is fundamentally a functional programming language with semantics that are not obvious reading its current docs.
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#5jq is nice, but the moment i need anything more complex than "pull this attribute out of bunch of objects" i vastly prefer spinning up an actual language runtime. or use a tool built around a language (e.g. https://github.com/borkdude/jet) rather than a language built around a tool.
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#6I love posts that are this information-dense. I know for a fact that this will be useful to me some day.
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#7jq is a fantastic tool for exploring data and doing simple transformations. I often wish it could consume/write data in other formats.
In python-land, I like to use glom[1], which is basically jq but operating on arbitrary python data structures. I believe there are bindings for jq in python in other languages, which would allow operating on data structures, but I imagine they are just spawning jq as a subprocess, since it doesn't seem like jq has a public C api.
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#8JQ is often frustrating when you want to do something non-trivial but you can't figure out how and the documentation is of little help. I think JQ could really benefit from having a classic programming language style "book", like "The AWK Programming Language". JQ is fundamentally a functional programming language with semantics that are not obvious reading its current docs.
I've also found the documentation tough to use when I need to jump back in and answer something like "how do I _____?" It feels like one of those sets of docs that's better approached by just reading the whole damn thing, working through some examples, etc. Studying the docs as opposed to referring to them.
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#10I've really loved having jq at my disposal ever since learning about it, but I feel like it took the combination of it and gron [1] to really transform my debugging and JSON workflows.