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authorBob Williams <bobwilliams.ii@gmail.com>2014-03-25 16:20:25 -0400
committerBob Williams <bobwilliams.ii@gmail.com>2014-03-25 16:20:25 -0400
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tree853bb3e4572342f44016ff902ca66da347ffc3b5
parent64c3ce35e1493728c65191d9b16183841ad73ca7 (diff)
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adding the is_json tool and associated readme.md details
-rw-r--r--plugins/jsontools/README.md17
-rw-r--r--plugins/jsontools/jsontools.plugin.zsh15
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/plugins/jsontools/README.md b/plugins/jsontools/README.md
index 9f07194c9..309ce9b5f 100644
--- a/plugins/jsontools/README.md
+++ b/plugins/jsontools/README.md
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ Handy command line tools for dealing with json data.
## Tools
- **pp_json** - pretty prints json
+- **is_json** - returns true if valid json; false otherwise
-## Usage
+## Examples
-##### pp_json - examples
+##### pp_json
```sh
# curl json data and pretty print the results
@@ -19,4 +20,16 @@ less data.json | pp_json
# json data directly from the command line
echo '{"b":2, "a":1}' | pp_json
+```
+
+##### is_json
+```sh
+# curl json data and pretty print the results
+curl https://coderwall.com/bobwilliams.json | is_json
+
+# pretty print the contents of an existing json file
+less data.json | is_json
+
+# json data directly from the command line
+echo '{"b":2, "a":1}' | is_json
``` \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/jsontools/jsontools.plugin.zsh b/plugins/jsontools/jsontools.plugin.zsh
index 729763c33..b8b558807 100644
--- a/plugins/jsontools/jsontools.plugin.zsh
+++ b/plugins/jsontools/jsontools.plugin.zsh
@@ -2,15 +2,26 @@
# Adds command line aliases useful for dealing with JSON
if [[ $(whence $JSONTOOLS_METHOD) = "" ]]; then
- JSONTOOLS_METHOD=""
+ JSONTOOLS_METHOD=""
fi
if [[ $(whence node) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xnode" ) ]]; then
alias pp_json='xargs -0 node -e "console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(process.argv[1]), null, 4));"'
+ alias is_json='xargs -0 node -e "try {json = JSON.parse(process.argv[1]);} catch (e) { console.log(false); json = null; } if(json) { console.log(true); }"'
elif [[ $(whence python) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xpython" ) ]]; then
alias pp_json='python -mjson.tool'
+ alias is_json='python -c "
+import json, sys;
+try:
+ json.loads(sys.stdin.read())
+except ValueError, e:
+ print False
+else:
+ print True
+sys.exit(0)"'
elif [[ $(whence ruby) != "" && ( "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "x" || "x$JSONTOOLS_METHOD" = "xruby" ) ]]; then
alias pp_json='ruby -e "require \"json\"; require \"yaml\"; puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read).to_yaml"'
+ alias is_json='ruby -e "require \"json\"; begin; JSON.parse(STDIN.read); puts true; rescue Exception => e; puts false; end"'
fi
-unset JSONTOOLS_METHOD \ No newline at end of file
+unset JSONTOOLS_METHOD