literalizer 2026.3.18

Convert JSON data structures to native language literal syntax.

literalizer

literalizer converts JSON data structures to native language literal syntax.

• Supported languages

• Installation

• Usage

• Use cases

• Full documentation

Supported languages

Ada, Bash, C, C#, C++, Clojure, Crystal, D, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, MATLAB, Nim, OCaml, Occam-pi, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript, Zig.

Installation

Requires Python 3.12+.

pip install literalizer

Usage

"""Example of using literalizer."""

from literalizer import literalize_yaml
from literalizer.languages import Go

# YAML comments are preserved using the target language's comment syntax
yaml_config = """\
# Server configuration
host: localhost  # default host
port: 8080
# Enable debug mode for development
debug: true
"""
result = literalize_yaml(
    yaml_string=yaml_config,
    language=Go(),
    prefix="    ",
    wrap=True,
)
# result:
# map[string]any{
#     // Server configuration
#     "host": "localhost",  // default host
#     "port": 8080,
#     // Enable debug mode for development
#     "debug": true,
# }

Use cases

• Generate test fixtures from JSON samples.

• Convert API responses to language-native data structures for documentation.

• Create type-safe literal data from JSON config files.

Full documentation

See the full documentation for more information including how to contribute.