Jex - JSON/YAML interactive explorer

Why?

• In a world that JSON/YAML config files take over the world and JQ is not your taste, use the language you already know to explore the data. Whether it is Python/Hylang or ES6 on your favorite web browser developer tool.

• Fighting the bad practice of using online JSON pretifier/formatter, which is prone to leak credentials contained in JSON/YAML (e.g K8S secret output).

Install

pip install jex

Features

• Supports input JSON/YAML.

Explorers

Supports exploring via

• Python interpreter
• Hylang interpreter hy
• Interactive Ruby Shell irb
• Node node
• Web browser

Usage

• Just pipe the jex after the command that outputs JSON/YAML.

$ curl -ssL https://api.github.com/users/hvnsweeting/repos | jex

• Use jex -w to open data on your browser, open web console and access the data via data.

• Use jex -i to open simple python interpreter - in same process - useful on no GUI environment.

• Use jex would open a new window for interactive exploring the data via name data in Python interactive interpreter: This pre-import pprint, all functions in itertools, functools, operator stdlib. Provide --repl LANG to invoke other language interpreters.

========== WELCOME TO JEX ==========
Access the data via name data
data is a list, with length 30, first elem of type <class 'dict'>
>>> data[0].keys()
dict_keys(['id', 'node_id', 'name', 'full_name', 'private', 'owner', 'html_url', 'description', 'fork', 'url', 'forks_url', 'keys_url', 'collaborators_url', 'teams_url', 'hooks_url', 'issue_events_url', 'events_url', 'assignees_url', 'branches_url', 'tags_url', 'blobs_url', 'git_tags_url', 'git_refs_url', 'trees_url', 'statuses_url', 'languages_url', 'stargazers_url', 'contributors_url', 'subscribers_url', 'subscription_url', 'commits_url', 'git_commits_url', 'comments_url', 'issue_comment_url', 'contents_url', 'compare_url', 'merges_url', 'archive_url', 'downloads_url', 'issues_url', 'pulls_url', 'milestones_url', 'notifications_url', 'labels_url', 'releases_url', 'deployments_url', 'created_at', 'updated_at', 'pushed_at', 'git_url', 'ssh_url', 'clone_url', 'svn_url', 'homepage', 'size', 'stargazers_count', 'watchers_count', 'language', 'has_issues', 'has_projects', 'has_downloads', 'has_wiki', 'has_pages', 'forks_count', 'mirror_url', 'archived', 'disabled', 'open_issues_count', 'license', 'forks', 'open_issues', 'watchers', 'default_branch'])
>>> pprint([(i['name'], i['html_url']) for i in data])
[('adventofcode', 'https://github.com/hvnsweeting/adventofcode'),
 ('airflow_docker', 'https://github.com/hvnsweeting/airflow_docker'),
 ('albatross', 'https://github.com/hvnsweeting/albatross'),
 ('alloy_ci', 'https://github.com/hvnsweeting/alloy_ci'),
 ('amnesia', 'https://github.com/hvnsweeting/amnesia'),
...

$ echo 'apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx-deployment
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:1.14.2
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80' | jex

========== WELCOME TO JEX ==========
Access the data via name data
data is a dict, with keys: ['apiVersion', 'kind', 'metadata', 'spec']
>>> pprint(data['spec'])
{'replicas': 3,
 'selector': {'matchLabels': {'app': 'nginx'}},
 'template': {'metadata': {'labels': {'app': 'nginx'}},
              'spec': {'containers': [{'image': 'nginx:1.14.2',
                                       'name': 'nginx',
                                       'ports': [{'containerPort': 80}]}]}}}

TODO

• Support Jid.

Authors

• Viet Hung Nguyen hvn@familug.org