JsonPath
Ruby conversion of the Javascript JSONPath from http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'json_path'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install json_path
Usage
{ "store": {
"book": [
{ "category": "reference",
"author": "Nigel Rees",
"title": "Sayings of the Century",
"price": 8.95
},
{ "category": "fiction",
"author": "Evelyn Waugh",
"title": "Sword of Honour",
"price": 12.99
},
{ "category": "fiction",
"author": "Herman Melville",
"title": "Moby Dick",
"isbn": "0-553-21311-3",
"price": 8.99
},
{ "category": "fiction",
"author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title": "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn": "0-395-19395-8",
"price": 22.99
}
],
"bicycle": {
"color": "red",
"price": 19.95
}
} ,
"expensive": 10
}
$.store.book[*].author
can get the authors of all books in the store
["Nigel Rees","Evelyn Waugh","Herman Melville","J. R. R. Tolkien"]
$..author
can get all authors
["Nigel Rees","Evelyn Waugh","Herman Melville","J. R. R. Tolkien"]
$.store.*
can get all things in store, which are some books and a red bicycle
[
{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Evelyn Waugh",
"title" : "Sword of Honour",
"price" : 12.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
}
],
{
"color" : "red",
"price" : 19.95
}
]
$.store..price
can get the price of everything in the store
[ 8.95, 12.99, 8.99, 22.99, 19.95 ]
$..book[2]
can get the third book
[
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
}
]
$..book[(@.length-1)]
can get the last element
[{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
}]
$..book[-1:]
can get the last book in order
[{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
}]
$..book[0,1]
can get the first two books
[{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Evelyn Waugh",
"title" : "Sword of Honour",
"price" : 12.99
}]
$..book[:2]
can get the first two books
[{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Evelyn Waugh",
"title" : "Sword of Honour",
"price" : 12.99
}]
$..book[?(@.isbn)]
can filter all books with isbn number
[{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
}]
$..book[?(@.price<10)]
can filter all books cheapier than 10
[
{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
}
]
$..*
can get All members of JSON structure
[
{
"book" : [
{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Evelyn Waugh",
"title" : "Sword of Honour",
"price" : 12.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
}
],
"bicycle" : {
"color" : "red",
"price" : 19.95
}
},
10,
[
{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Evelyn Waugh",
"title" : "Sword of Honour",
"price" : 12.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
}
],
{
"color" : "red",
"price" : 19.95
},
{
"category" : "reference",
"author" : "Nigel Rees",
"title" : "Sayings of the Century",
"price" : 8.95
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Evelyn Waugh",
"title" : "Sword of Honour",
"price" : 12.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "Herman Melville",
"title" : "Moby Dick",
"isbn" : "0-553-21311-3",
"price" : 8.99
},
{
"category" : "fiction",
"author" : "J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title" : "The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn" : "0-395-19395-8",
"price" : 22.99
},
"reference",
"Nigel Rees",
"Sayings of the Century",
8.95,
"fiction",
"Evelyn Waugh",
"Sword of Honour",
12.99,
"fiction",
"Herman Melville",
"Moby Dick",
"0-553-21311-3",
8.99,
"fiction",
"J. R. R. Tolkien",
"The Lord of the Rings",
"0-395-19395-8",
22.99,
"red",
19.95
]
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec
to run the tests. You can also run bin/console
for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install
. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb
, and then run bundle exec rake release
, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lribeiro/json_path. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the JsonPath project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.