JSONPath-Lite 0.0.2

A light weight json path utility for Python

jsonpath-lite

A very light weight utility which parses and uses JSONPath expressions to do things with the Python data structures representing a JSON document.

Usage

Say you have this JSON:

{
    "Things": [
        {
            "Name": "Thing1",
            "Value": "Dog"
        }
    ]
}

If you want to get the value of a Thing Named Thing1: get_json_item(JSON Document, '$.Things[?Name="Thing1"].Value')

If you want to update the value of the Thing Named Thing1 to Cat: update_json_element(JSON Document, '$.Things[?Name="Thing1"].Value', 'Cat')

If you want to add a new Thing: write_new_json_element(JSON Document, '$.Things', {"Name": "Thing2", "Value": "Manbearpig"})
The arguments are: the JSON like object, path to the location of the new item, value of the new item, name of the new item.
Note that a value is not supplied for newElementName since we are adding a new item to a list (array).

If you want to add a new field to one of the Things: write_new_json_element(JSON Document, $.Things[?Name="Thing1"], True, "IsAGoodBoy")