Help editing JSON files

Alec_White · 2016-04-30T22:39:25.000Z

Is there anyway or form to edit JSON trees/nodes, and apply complex modifications in bulk, like editing certain nodes that have certain values and so on?

pisskop · 2016-04-30T22:41:05.000Z

nodes?

You mean live cntrl+h and changing them all?

Alec_White · 2016-05-01T00:02:06.000Z

More on the lines of “copy every node that has X type and change it to Y, then add it after the copied node”.

I don’t know and can’t find a way to script it.

Coolthulhu · 2016-05-01T01:20:08.000Z

jq should be good for that.
Alternatively python scripts.

Alec_White · 2016-05-01T02:31:47.000Z

[quote=“Coolthulhu, post:4, topic:11799”]jq should be good for that.
Alternatively python scripts.[/quote]

By what is in the manual, doesn’t look like jq can copy/duplicate specific objects in an array.

So now I have to ask: How does the Python script system works? I mean, I don’t mind learning Python, but I don’t know what tools to use to run Python scripts over JSON files.

Coolthulhu · 2016-05-01T03:02:47.000Z

Python has a json library that operates on specific fields/entries. Basically, loads the jsons into a giant nested tree of arrays and dictionaries (in case of DDA, arrays of dictionaries).
Not sure how does it handle formatting, though.

Alec_White · 2016-05-01T04:23:55.000Z

It looks that for formatting it would need to re-format after dumping.

This is more FUN than I thought. Anyway, I don’t know if sticking to the manual method or go cry-me-a-river to Stack Overflow.

It’ll be fun updating mods thou.