sebdah / yayson

Yay! Beautiful JSON on the command line!

yayson

Yay, beautiful JSON on the command line!

yayson will take input on stdin and print pretty JSON with color in your terminal. It will come out something like this:

Example usage

cat my.json | yayson.py

or

curl -s http://www.example.com/my.json | yayson.py

--help output

usage: yayson.py [-h] [-i INDENT] [-c] [-s] [--version]

Yayson produces beautiful JSON

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INDENT, --indent INDENT
                        Number of spaces to indent with (default: 2)
  -c, --compact         Print JSON in compact mode, i.e. without spaces
                        between keys and values
  -s, --sort            Turn on key sorting
  --version             Print version information

Release information

0.3.1 (2015-03-23)

• Library support (#6). Thanks @Macropin for the PR.

0.3.0 (2013-05-23)

• Small fix for Python 3 (#5). Thanks @Fiedzia for the PR.

0.2.0 (2013-04-08)

• Set default indenting to 2 spaces (#2)
• Add compact mode (#1)

0.1.0 (2013-04-07)

• Initial release

Releasing to PyPI

make release

Author

This project is maintained by Sebastian Dahlgren (GitHub | Twitter | LinkedIn)

yayson's Issues

Support custom JSON encoder classes

Great work so far, thanks!

I'm calling json.dumpswith the clsargument to supply a custom JSON encoder class. It would be cool to accept this as parameter in yayson and hand it over instead of being forced to using the default one.

Support multiple JSON documents in output

Support multiple JSON documents in output:

{'tables': {}, 'global': {'daemon': False, 'check_interval': 3, 'dry_run': True, 'region': 'eu-west-1', 'aws_secret_access_key': None, 'config': '/Users/sebastian/Downloads/dyndyn.conf', 'aws_access_key_id': None}, 'logging': {'log_file': '~/Downloads/dynamic-dynamodb.log', 'log_level': 'info'}}
{"tables": {}, "global": {"daemon": false, "check_interval": 3, "dry_run": true, "region": "eu-west-1", "aws_secret_access_key": null, "config": "/Users/sebastian/Downloads/dyndyn.conf", "aws_access_key_id": null}, "logging": {"log_file": "~/Downloads/dynamic-dynamodb.log", "log_level": "info"}}

Prettier colors in output

Prettier colors in output is wanted badly. Maybe we should throw out colorama?

Library support

This would be more useful if it could be used as a library. If you move the pretty print function out from the main loop then it could be included in other projects.

Set default indenting to 2 spaces

Set default indenting to 2 spaces rather than 4

Add compact mode

Add compact mode, printing the JSON with ':' and ','.