NAME

json_xs - JSON::XS commandline utility

SYNOPSIS

json_xs [-v] [-f inputformat] [-t outputformat]

DESCRIPTION

json_xs converts between some input and output formats (one of them is JSON).

The default input format is json and the default output format is json-pretty.

OPTIONS

-v

Be slightly more verbose.

-f fromformat

Read a file in the given format from STDIN.

fromformat can be one of:

json - a json text encoded, either utf-8, utf16-be/le, utf32-be/le

cbor - CBOR (RFC 7049, CBOR::XS), a kind of binary JSON

storable - a Storable frozen value

storable-file - a Storable file (Storable has two incompatible formats)

bencode - use Convert::Bencode, if available (used by torrent files, among others)

clzf - Compress::LZF format (requires that module to be installed)

eval - evaluate the given code as (non-utf-8) Perl, basically the reverse of "-t dump"

yaml - YAML (avoid at all costs, requires the YAML module :)

string - do not attempt to decode the file data

none - nothing is read, creates an undef scalar - mainly useful with -e

-t toformat

Write the file in the given format to STDOUT.

toformat can be one of:

json, json-utf-8 - json, utf-8 encoded

json-pretty - as above, but pretty-printed

json-utf-16le, json-utf-16be - little endian/big endian utf-16

json-utf-32le, json-utf-32be - little endian/big endian utf-32

cbor - CBOR (RFC 7049, CBOR::XS), a kind of binary JSON

storable - a Storable frozen value in network format

storable-file - a Storable file in network format (Storable has two incompatible formats)

bencode - use Convert::Bencode, if available (used by torrent files, among others)

clzf - Compress::LZF format

yaml - YAML

dump - Data::Dump

dumper - Data::Dumper

string - writes the data out as if it were a string

none - nothing gets written, mainly useful together with -e

Note that Data::Dumper doesn't handle self-referential data structures correctly - use "dump" instead.

-e code

Evaluate perl code after reading the data and before writing it out again - can be used to filter, create or extract data. The data that has been written is in $_, and whatever is in there is written out afterwards.

EXAMPLES

json_xs -t none <isitreally.json

"JSON Lint" - tries to parse the file isitreally.json as JSON - if it is valid JSON, the command outputs nothing, otherwise it will print an error message and exit with non-zero exit status.

<src.json json_xs >pretty.json

Prettify the JSON file src.json to dst.json.

json_xs -f storable-file <file

Read the serialised Storable file file and print a human-readable JSON version of it to STDOUT.

json_xs -f storable-file -t yaml <file

Same as above, but write YAML instead (not using JSON at all :)

json_xs -f none -e '$_ = [1, 2, 3]'

Dump the perl array as UTF-8 encoded JSON text.

<torrentfile json_xs -f bencode -e '$_ = join "\n", map @$_, @{$_->{"announce-list"}}' -t string

Print the tracker list inside a torrent file.

lwp-request http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/JSON-XS.json | json_xs

Fetch the cpan-testers result summary JSON::XS and pretty-print it.

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2008 Marc Lehmann <json@schmorp.de>