JSONLibconfig

✨ Pure python implementation library provides JSON <- convert -> Libconfig

Install

pip install jsonlibconfig

CLI Usage

λ ~/jsonlibconfig -h
usage: jsonlibconfig [-h] [--target {json,libconfig}] [--pretty] [--hextoint]
                     [--file FILE]

Pure python library provides JSON <- convert --> Libconfig

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --target {json,libconfig}
                        specify output format: json, libconfig (default:
                        libconfig)
  --pretty              Pretty print
  --hextoint            Convert HEX string to integer (only for json)
  --file FILE           Input file

JSON to Libconfig

cat example.cfg | jsonlibconfig --target json

{"hours": {"mon": {"close": 18, "open": 9}, "wed": {"close": 18, "open": 9}, "sun": {"close": 16, "open": 11}, "fri": {"close": 20, "open": 9}, "sat": {"close": 20, "open": 9}, "thu": {"close": 18, "open": 9}, "tue": {"close": 18, "open": 9}}, "name": "Books, Movies & More", "inventory": {"movies": [{"media": "DVD", "price": 19.99, "qty": 11, "title": "Brazil"}, {"media": "DVD", "price": 18.99, "qty": 5, "title": "The City of Lost Children"}, {"media": "Blu-Ray", "price": 24.99, "qty": 20, "title": "Memento"}, {"title": "Howard the Duck"}], "books": [{"price": 29.99, "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "qty": 5, "title": "Treasure Island"}, {"price": 9.99, "author": "Neal Stephenson", "qty": 8, "title": "Snow Crash"}]}}

Libconfig to JSON

cat example.json | jsonlibconfig --pretty

  hours = {
    wed = {
      close = 18; 
      open = 9; 
    }; 
    sun = {
      close = 16; 
      open = 11; 
    }; 
    fri = {
      close = 20; 
      open = 9; 
    }; 
    tue = {
      close = 18; 
      open = 9; 
    }; 
    mon = {
      close = 18; 
      open = 9; 
    }; 
    thu = {
      close = 18; 
      open = 9; 
    }; 
    sat = {
      close = 20; 
      open = 9; 
    }; 
  }; 
  name = "Books, Movies & More"; 
  inventory = {
    movies = (
      {
        media = "DVD"; 
        price = 19.99; 
        title = "Brazil"; 
        qty = 11; 
      }, 
      {
        media = "DVD"; 
        price = 18.99; 
        title = "The City of Lost Children"; 
        qty = 5; 
      }, 
      {
        media = "Blu-Ray"; 
        price = 24.99; 
        title = "Memento"; 
        qty = 20; 
      }, 
      {
        title = "Howard the Duck"; 
      }
    ); 
    books = (
      {
        title = "Treasure Island"; 
        price = 29.99; 
        qty = 5; 
        author = "Robert Louis Stevenson"; 
      }, 
      {
        title = "Snow Crash"; 
        price = 9.99; 
        qty = 8; 
        author = "Neal Stephenson"; 
      }
    ); 
  }; 

API

from jsonlibconfig import encoder
from jsonlibconfig import decoder

from json to libconfig

encoder.dumps(json.loads(inputs))

from libconfig to json

decoder.loads(inputs))

License

MIT