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tson

tson is JSON viewer and editor written in Go. This tool displays JSON as a tree and you can search and edit key or values.

Support OS

• Mac
• Linux

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/skanehira/tson
$ cd tson && go install

Usage

# from file
$ tson < test.json

# from pipe
$ curl -X POST http://gorilla/likes/regist | tson

# from url(only can use http get mthod)
$ tson -url http://gorilla/likes/json

Use tson as a library in your application

You can use tson in your application as following.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	tson "github.com/skanehira/tson/lib"
)

func main() {
	j := []byte(`{"name":"gorilla"}`)

	// tson.Edit([]byte) will return []byte, error
	res, err := tson.Edit(j)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	fmt.Println(string(res))
}

Keybinding

JSON tree

key	description
j	move down
k	move up
g	move to the top
G	move to the bottom
ctrl-f	page up
ctrl-b	page down
h	hide current node
H	collaspe value nodes
l	expand current node
L	expand all nodes
r	read from file
s	save to file
a	add new node
A	add new value
d	clear children nodes
e	edit json with $EDITOR
q	quit tson
Enter	edit node
/ or f	search nodes
?	show helps
space	expand/collaspe children nodes
ctrl-j	move to next parent node
ctrk-k	move to next previous node
ctrl-c	quit tson

help

key	description
j	move down
k	move up
g	move to the top
G	move to the bottom
ctrl-f	page up
ctrl-b	page down
q	close help

About editing nodes

When editing a node value, the JSON value type is determined based on the value. For example, after inputed 10.5 and saving the JSON to a file, it will be output as a float type 10.5. If the value sorround with ", it will be output as string type always. The following is a list of conversion rules.

input value	json type
gorilla	string
10.5	float
5	int
true or false	boolean
null	null
"10" or "true"	string

About adding new node

You can use a to add new node with raw json string.

For expample, you have following tree.

{array} <- your cursor in there
├──a
├──b
└──c

If you input {"name":"gorilla"} and press add button, then you will get new tree as following.

{array} <- your cursor in there
├──a
├──b
├──c
└──{object}
   └──name
      └──gorilla

Also, You can use A to add new value to current node.

For example, you have following tree.

{object} <- your cursor in there
└──name
   └──gorilla

If you input {"age": 26} and press add button, then you will get new tree as following.

{object} <- your cursor in there
├──name
│  └──gorilla
└──age
   └──26

Author

skanehira