lua-resty-prettycjson

lua-resty-prettycjson is a JSON Pretty Formatter for Lua cJSON.

Installation

Just place prettycjson.lua somewhere in your package.path, under resty directory. If you are using OpenResty, the default location would be /usr/local/openresty/lualib/resty.

Using OpenResty Package Manager (opm)

$ opm get bungle/lua-resty-prettycjson

Using LuaRocks

$ luarocks install lua-resty-prettycjson

LuaRocks repository for lua-resty-prettycjson is located at https://luarocks.org/modules/bungle/lua-resty-prettycjson.

Lua API

string function(dt, [lf = "\n", [id = "\t", [ac = " ", [ec = function]]]])

Pretty formats the JSON output. You may pass lf (line feed) if you want to use different linefeed than the default \n. If you want to indent ( id argument) with something else than \t (a tab) you can pass that as arguments as well. And if you want to have something else than (single space) after colons : (ac argument) in json, you can change that as well, try for example \n. If you'd like to use an encoder other than cJSON, pass the encoding function as the 5th argument (ec). It should accept anything as input parameter, and if there is a problem with encoding this function should return nil and an error message, such as:

nil, "Cannot serialise function: type not supported"

For input argument dt it accepts anything that cjson.encode accepts (or whatever the custom encoding function accepts).

Example

local pretty = require "resty.prettycjson"

print(pretty({
    key1 = "data",
    key2 = 27,
    key3 = {
        key3_1 = "something",
        key3_2 = "something else"
    },
    key4 = {
        "item1",
        "item2"
    },
    key5 = {},
    key5 = {{''}, {'',''}, {{},{}}},
    key6 = { '' },
    key7 = {{{{ test = "value", {{{{{{}}},{{},{},{}},{},{}}}}}}}}
}))

That will output:

{
	"key6": [
		""
	],
	"key3": {
		"key3_1": "something",
		"key3_2": "something else"
	},
	"key7": [
		[
			[
				{
					"1": [
						[
							[
								[
									[
										{}
									]
								],
								[
									{},
									{},
									{}
								],
								{},
								{}
							]
						]
					],
					"test": "value"
				}
			]
		]
	],
	"key1": "data",
	"key5": [
		[
			""
		],
		[
			"",
			""
		],
		[
			{},
			{}
		]
	],
	"key2": 27,
	"key4": [
		"item1",
		"item2"
	]
}

Changes

The changes of every release of this module is recorded in Changes.md file.

License

lua-resty-prettycjson uses three clause BSD license.

Copyright (c) 2015 — 2016, Aapo Talvensaari
All rights reserved.

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