JSON is incredible, it is the most popular data exchange notation for a reason, it is simple, elegant, and lightweight; however, on large and complex datasets, it is a hassle to browse through it.
Heavily inspired by JQ and Zed, QSON is a notation built to look through JSON, it works by declaring the properties one is interested in seeing, and QSON would return a result in the form of JSON.
JSON input
[
{
"name": "Alice Montgomery",
"age": 25,
"id": 2421041,
"hobbies": [
"Hiking",
"Baking",
"Horse-back riding"
]
},
{
"name": "Bob Jonhson",
"age": 24,
"id": 2439002,
"hobbies": [
"Reading",
"Bird watching",
"Photography"
]
}
]There are only two entries on that object, but it would be easy to imagine having a 100 records or more, and it is increasingly difficult to comb through that information.
Enter QSON:
[[].name]
Result:
[
"Alice Montgomery",
"Bob Johnson"
]Pretty neat, but let's step it up a notch:
{
[].id: {
"name": [].name,
"age": [].age
}
}
Result:
{
"2421041": {
"name": "Alice Montgomery",
"age": 25
},
"2439002": {
"name": "Bob Johnson",
"age": 24
}
}On JavaScript, the usage is as follows:
const qson = new QSON(query);
console.log(
qson.filter(jsonObj)
);The result will be in the form of a JavaScript object or array