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Utilities to convert CSV, TOML, XML & YAML to JSON, including jq wrappers, for use on the command line.
https://github.com/simonrupf/convert2json

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Utilities to convert CSV, TOML, XML & YAML to JSON, including jq wrappers, for use on the command line.

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convert2json
============
Utilities for use on the command line, to convert CSV, INI, RSV, TOML, XML & YAML
to JSON. For each supported format there is a tool for use in a pipe as well as a
wrapper which passes the converted input or files in the arguments to jaq or jq,
for further querying and processing.

Overview
--------
Goals:
+ provide light-weight converters to JSON
+ provide jaq and jq wrappers
+ add support for additional formats having maintained [Serde](https://serde.rs/) implementations

Non-Goals:
- converting JSON into other data formats, consider [jyt](https://github.com/ken-matsui/jyt)
- replicating [jq](https://jqlang.github.io/jq/), jaq or jq must be installed to
use the jq wrappers

Usage examples
--------------
```
# convert yaml to json
$ echo foo: bar | yaml2json
{"foo":"bar"}

# query a value from a toml file
$ tq -r .package.description Cargo.toml
CLI utilities to convert CSV, INI, RSV, TOML, XML & YAML into JSON and for use with jaq or jq.

# query for environment variables that contain the current users username, using ini parser
$ printenv | iq --compact-output '.USER as $user | with_entries(select(.value | contains($user))) | keys'
["HOME","LOGNAME","OLDPWD","PWD","USER","USERNAME"]

# csv2json & cq recognize 4 additional arguments
$ csv2json --help
Usage: csv2json [-d ] [-q ] [-E ] [--no-trim] [files...]

Reads CSV from files or standard input and converts this to JSON, emitted on standard output. Any errors are reported to standard error and result in a non-zero exit code.

Options:
-d, --delimiter field delimiter to use when parsing CSV, defaults to: ,
(comma)
-q, --quote quote character to use when parsing CSV, defaults to: "
(double quote)
-E, --escape escape character to use when parsing CSV, to escape quote
characters within a field. By default, quotes get escaped by
doubling them.
--no-trim do not trim headers & fields. By default, both get trimmed
of starting or trailing whitespace characters.
-h, --help display usage information
```

Alternatives
------------
* Rust 🦀:
* [jyt](https://github.com/ken-matsui/jyt)
* [yaml2json](https://github.com/dafu-wu/yaml2json)
* [yaml2json-rs](https://github.com/Nessex/yaml2json-rs)
* [Go 🐹](https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=yaml2json&m=)
* [JavaScript 🌐](https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=yaml2json)
* [Python 🐍](https://pypi.org/search/?q=yaml2json)

Installation
------------
Packages are provided (statically linked) for Debian & Ubuntu, as wells as RPM
based Linux distributions and for
[Alpine Linux](https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=convert2json).

For Ubuntu, MacOS (universal binaries for x86_64 & arm64) and Windows, archives
with pre-built (dynamically linked) binaries are provided, for manual installation.

You can find these packages and archives in the
[releases](https://github.com/simonrupf/convert2json/releases).

If you have Rust and Cargo installed, you can build and update these tools using
`cargo install convert2json`. See the feature matrix below, if you only need a
subset of the utilities.

Feature Matrix
--------------
You may not want to install all of the utilities or only a particular one. Each
utility can be selected by itself or via group features. If no features are
selected, all utilities get installed.

Matrix of all selectable features:
| | to_json | jq |
|------|-----------|----|
| csv | csv2json | cq |
| ini | ini2json | iq |
| rsv | rsv2json | rq |
| toml | toml2json | tq |
| xml | xml2json | xq |
| yaml | yaml2json | yq |

Examples:
```
# install only yq & tq:
cargo install convert2json --no-default-features --features yq,tq
# install all the xml related tools:
cargo install convert2json --no-default-features --features xml
```