gjson

@woifes/gjson

Why?

This package implements the GSJON json document search. The focus lies on the search aspect of GJSON because even though NodeJS comes with a good build-in JSON support. It misses a commong searching syntax.

Please check the source code before using this package

Installation

npm install @woifes/gjson

Quick start

import { get } from "@woifes/gjson";

const exampleJson = {
    name: { first: "Tom", last: "Anderson" },
    age: 37,
    children: ["Sara", "Alex", "Jack"],
    "fav.movie": "Deer Hunter",
    friends: [
        { first: "Dale", last: "Murphy", age: 44, nets: ["ig", "fb", "tw"] },
        { first: "Roger", last: "Craig", age: 68, nets: ["fb", "tw"] },
        { first: "Jane", last: "Murphy", age: 47, nets: ["ig", "tw"] },
    ],
};

console.log( get(exampleJson, "name.first") ); //"Tom"

Supported GJSON features

GSJON feature	Supported?	Notes
Path Structure	YES
Basic	YES
Wildcards	YES
Escape Character	YES
Arrays	YES
Queries	YES
Dot vs Pipe	YES
Modifiers	NO
Modifier arguments	NO
Custom modifiers	NO
Multipaths	NO
Literals	NO
JSON Lines	NO

This table is taken from the docs of gjson-py

Running the build

The project is part of a monorepo. If the project is checked out in this environment use the following scripts:

TypeScript build:

pnpm run compile

Run tests:

pnpm test