Package: gjson
Introductiongjson-py is a Python package that provides a simple way to filter and extract data from JSON-like objects or JSON
files, using theGJSONsyntax.It is, compatibly with the language differences and with some limitation, the Python equivalent of the GoGJSONpackage.
The main difference from GJSON is that gjson-py doesn’t work directly with JSON strings but instead with
JSON-like Python objects, that can either be the resulting object when callingjson.load()orjson.loads(),
or any Python object that is JSON-serializable.A detailed list of the GJSON features supported by gjson-py is provided below.See also the fullgjson-py documentation.Installationgjson-py is available on thePython Package Index(PyPI) and can be easily installed with:pip install gjsonAdebianbranch is also present with all the configuration to build the package for Debian-based systems.
A.debpackage for the current stable and unstable Debian versions is also available for download on thereleases page on GitHub.How to use the librarygjson-py provides different ways to perform queries on JSON-like objects.gjson.get()A quick accessor to GJSON functionalities exposed for simplicity of use. Particularly useful to perform a single
query on a given object:>>> import gjson
>>> data = {'name': {'first': 'Tom', 'last': 'Anderson'}, 'age': 37}
>>> gjson.get(data, 'name.first')
'Tom'It’s also possible to make it return a JSON-encoded string and decide on failure if it should raise an exception
or returnNone. See the full API documentation for more details.GJSONclassTheGJSONclass provides full access to the gjson-py API allowing to perform multiple queries on the same object:>>> import gjson
>>> data = {'name': {'first': 'Tom', 'last': 'Anderson'}, 'age': 37}
>>> source = gjson.GJSON(data)
>>> source.get('name.first')
'Tom'
>>> str(source)
'{"name": {"first": "Tom", "last": "Anderson"}, "age": 37}'
>>> source.getj('name.first')
'"Tom"'
>>> name = source.get_gjson('name')
>>> name.get('first')
'Tom'
>>> name
<gjson.GJSON object at 0x102735b20>See the full API documentation for more details.How to use the CLIgjson-py provides also a command line interface (CLI) for ease of use:$echo'{"name": {"first": "Tom", "last": "Anderson"}, "age": 37}'>test.json$cattest.json|gjson'name.first'# Read from stdin"Tom"$gjsontest.json'age'# Read from a file37$cattest.json|gjson-'name.first'# Explicitely read from stdin"Tom"JSON LinesJSON Lines support in the CLI allows for different use cases. All the examples in this section operates on atest.jsonfile generated with:$echo-e'{"name": "Gilbert", "age": 61}\n{"name": "Alexa", "age": 34}\n{"name": "May", "age": 57}'>test.jsonApply the same query to each lineUsing the-l/--linesCLI argument, for each input line gjson-py applies the query and filters the data according
to it. Lines are read one by one so there is no memory overhead for the processing. It can be used while tailing log
files in JSON format for example.$gjson--linestest.json'age'61
34
57$tail-flog.json|gjson--lines'bytes_sent'# Dummy exampleEncapsulate all lines in an array, then apply the queryUsing the special query prefix syntax.., as described in GJSON’s documentation forJSON Lines, gjson-py will
read all lines from the input and encapsulate them into an array. This approach has of course the memory overhead of
loading the whole input to perform the query.$gjsontest.json'..#.name'["Gilbert", "Alexa", "May"]Filter lines based on their valuesCombining the-l/--linesCLI argument with the special query prefix..described above, it’s possible to filter
input lines based on their values. In this case gjson-py encapsulates each line in an array so that is possible to use
theQueriesGJSON syntax to filter them. As the ecapsulation is performed on each line, there is no memory overhead.
Because technically when a line is filtered is because there was no match on the whole line query, the final exit code,
if any line is filtered, will be1.$gjson--linestest.json'..#(age>40).name'"Gilbert"
"May"Filter lines and apply query to the resultCombining the methods above is possible for example to filter/extract data from the lines first and then apply a query
to the aggregated result. The memory overhead in this case is based on the amount of data resulting from the first
filtering/extraction.$gjson--linestest.json'age'|gjson'..@sort'[34, 57, 61]$gjson--linestest.json'..#(age>40).age'|gjson'..@sort'[57, 61]Query syntaxFor the generic query syntax refer to the originalGJSON Path Syntaxdocumentation.Supported GJSON featuresThis is the list of GJSON features and how they are supported by gjson-py:GJSON featureSupported by gjson-pyNotesPath StructureYESBasicYESWildcardsYESEscape CharacterYESArraysYESQueriesYESUsing Python’s operators[1][2]Dot vs PipeYESModifiersYESSee the table below for all the detailsModifier argumentsYESOnly a JSON object is accepted as argumentCustom modifiersYESOnly a JSON object is accepted as argument[3]MultipathsYESObject keys, if specified, must be JSON strings[4]LiteralsYESIncluding infinite and NaN values[5]JSON LinesYESCLI support[6][7][1]The queries matching is based on Python’s operator and as such the results might be different than the ones from
the Go GJSON package. In particular for the~operator that checks the truthy-ness of objects.[2]When using nested queries, only the outermost one controls whether to return only the first item or all items.[3]Custom modifiers names cannot contain reserved characters used by the GJSON grammar.[4]For example{"years":age}is valid while{years:age}is not, although that’s valid in GJSON.[5]Those special cases are handled according toPython’s JSON documentation.[6]Both for applying the same query to each line using the-l/--linesargument and to automatically encapsulate
the input lines in a list and apply the query to the list using the..special query prefix described inJSON Lines.[7]Library support is not currently present because gjson-py accepts only Python objects, making it impossible to
pass JSON Lines directly. The client is free to choose if calling gjson-py for each line or to encapsulate them in
a list before calling gjson-py.This is the list of modifiers present in GJSON and how they are supported by gjson-py:GJSON ModifierSupported by gjson-pyNotes@reverseYES@uglyYES@prettyPARTIALLYThewidthargument is not supported@thisYES@validYES@flattenYES@joinPARTIALLYPreserving duplicate keys not supported@keysYESValid only on JSON objects (mappings)@valuesYESValid only on JSON objects (mappings)@tostrYES@fromstrYES@groupYESAdditional featuresAdditional modifiersThis is the list of additional modifiers specific to gjson-py not present in GJSON:@ascii: escapes all non-ASCII characters when printing/returning the string representation of the object,
ensuring that the output is made only of ASCII characters. It’s implemented using theensure_asciiarguments in
the Python’sjsonmodule. This modifier doesn’t accept any arguments.@sort: sorts a mapping object by its keys or a sequence object by its values. This modifier doesn’t accept any
arguments.@top_n: given a sequence object groups the items in the sequence counting how many occurrences of each value are
present. It returns a mapping object where the keys are the distinct values of the list and the values are the number
of times the key was present in the list, ordered from the most common to the least common item. The items in the
original sequence object must be Python hashable. This modifier accepts an optional argumentnto return just the
N items with the higher counts. When thenargument is not provided all items are returned. Example usage:$echo'["a", "b", "c", "b", "c", "c"]'|gjson'@top_n'{"c": 3, "b": 2, "a": 1}$echo'["a", "b", "c", "b", "c", "c"]'|gjson'@top_n:{"n":2}'{"c": 3, "b": 2}@sum_n: given a sequence of objects, groups the items in the sequence using a grouping key and sum the values of a
sum key provided. It returns a mapping object where the keys are the distinct values of the grouping key and the
values are the sums of all the values of the sum key for each distinct grouped key, ordered from the highest sum to
the lowest. The values of the grouping key must be Python hashable. The values of the sum key must be integers or
floats. This modifier required two mandatory arguments,groupandsumthat have as values the respective keys
in the objects of the sequence. An optionalnargument is also accepted to return just the top N items with the
highest sum. Example usage:$echo'[{"key": "a", "time": 1}, {"key": "b", "time": 2}, {"key": "c", "time": 3}, {"key": "a", "time": 4}]'>test.json$gjsontest.json'@sum_n:{"group": "key", "sum": "time"}'{"a": 5, "c": 3, "b": 2}$gjsontest.json'@sum_n:{"group": "key", "sum": "time", "n": 2}'{"a": 5, "c": 3}