JSON prettifier and uglifier console

jsontools

#!/usr/bin/env python

import argparse
from json import load, loads, dump, dumps
from StringIO import StringIO

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='JSON console tools')

parser.add_argument('-v', '--validate', action='store_true', help='validate JSON data')
parser.add_argument('-l', '--inline', action='store_true', help='uglify JSON data') 
parser.add_argument('-p', '--prettify', action='store_true', help='prettify JSON data')
parser.add_argument('-f', '--file', nargs=1, type=str, required=True, help='Input file (required)')

args = parser.parse_args()


def _file_(path):
    with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
        return StringIO(fp.read())
    

def inline(path, encoding=None):
    ''' Convert a JSON data to inline.'''

    try:
        print dumps(load(_file_(path), encoding=encoding))
    except ValueError:
        print 'JSON object could not be decoded'


def prettify(path, encoding=None, spaces=2):
    ''' Prettify a JSON data.'''

    try:
        print dumps(load(_file_(path), encoding=None), indent=spaces)
    except ValueError:
        print 'JSON object could not be decoded'


def validate(data):
    try:
        loads(data)
        print True
    except ValueError:
        print False

if args.validate: validate(args.validate[0])
elif args.inline: inline(args.file[0])
elif args.prettify: prettify(args.file[0])
else: parser.print_help()

Install & Usage

Install

sudo wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/maurobaraldi/7562d11c5bec8b519cee/raw/02aa60d0fc91a06350d2188f15cb4ee0411435a0/jsontools -O /usr/bin/jsontools

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/jsontools

Usage

jsontools -h

JSON console tools

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v VALIDATE, --validate VALIDATE
validate JSON data
-l, --inline uglify JSON data
-p, --prettify prettify JSON data
-f FILE, --file FILE Input file (required)

_Preetify a JSON file_

jsontools -f /path/to/file.json -p

_Uglify (inline) a JSON file_

jsontools -f /path/to/file.json -l

_Validate a JSON file_

jsontools -f /path/to/file.json -v