joli

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joli

Pretty-up those JSON objects.

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Example

 
var joli = require('joli');
 
var data = [
  {type: 'movie', title: 'Avatar'},
  {type: 'song', title: 'Master of Puppets'},
  {type: 'movie', title: 'Ghostbusters'},
  {type: 'movie', title: 'Jurrasic Park'},
  {type: 'song', title: 'Rolling in the Deep'}
];
 
var style = {
  filter: function (data) {
    return data.type === 'movie';
  },
  map: function (data) {
    return data.title;
  }
};
 
/**
 * Using the functional interface
 */
 
var styled = joli.style(data, style);
 
console.log(styled);
 
// Will output:
//
// [ 'Avatar', 'Ghostbusters', 'Jurrasic Park' ]
 
 
/**
 * Using the streaming interface.
 */
 
var stream = joli.stream({style: style});
 
stream.on('data', function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});
 
// Mix and match objects and JSON.
stream.write('{ "type": "movie", "title": "Avatar" }');
stream.write({ type: 'song', title: 'Rolling in the Deep' });
stream.write({ type: 'movie', title: 'Jurrasic Park' });
 
// Will have outputted:
//
// Avatar
// Jurrasic Park
 

API

joli.style (data, style)

Style an object or array of objects by passing them through filter, map, and reduce functions. Returns the modified results.

  • data should be an object or array of objects.
  • style should be a style 'hash' or a 'named' style.

See Styles below.

joli.stream (options)

Returns a 'through' stream (Readable/Writable) that processes data written to it.

Options:

  • style - A style 'hash' or the name of a style.
  • json - Emit JSON.stringified() results instead of objects.

Styles

The real power of joli (and the reason it was created in the first place) is through reusable 'styles'. Styles are just node modules that export an object with the following signature:

module.exports = {
  // Optional. Map function.
  map: function(data) {
    return data.type;
  },

  // Optional. Filter function.
  filter: function(data) {
    return data.level === 'error';
  },

  // Optional. Reduce function.
  reduce: function(prev, curr, index, array) {
    // do fancy reduce stuff :)
  },

  // Optional. Reduce initial value.
  reduceInitialValue: 'Results: '
};

Styles can be saved to your location machine or distributed with a project. Both the joli node api, as well as joli(1) will automatically load styles from:

  • 'core' styles in node_modules/joli/.joli/styles
  • $HOME/.joli/styles
  • $CWD/.joli/styles

They are loaded in that order, so 'local' styles in your project will override 'machine' styles in $HOME/.joli/styles.

Some example core styles are included and they are:

  • keys - Maps data to only return the object's keys.
  • values - Maps data to only return the object's values.

The 'name' of a style is derived from its filename, minus the .js.

Outputters

Outputters are primariy used in the CLI, and allow you to customize how, and where you want data to be printed. An outputter is just a node module that exports a function that accepts data. For example the core 'console' outputter looks like:

module.exports = function (data) {
  console.log(data);
};

You could get creative with outputters and do things like produce PNGs, output bar-charts to the console, or play music via a MIDI interface.

Outputters are loaded automatically from:

  • 'core' outputters in node_modules/joli/.joli/outputters
  • $HOME/.joli/outputters
  • $CWM/.joli/outputters

Some example core outputters are included and they are:

  • console - Print data with console.log()
  • inspect - Print data through util.inspect()
  • json - Print valid JSON with JSON.stringify()

joli(1)

Install with npm install -g joli.

$ joli --help

  Usage: joli [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help           output usage information
    -V, --version        output the version number
    -n, --newline        use if input is newline-separated JSON objects
    -l, --lines          output results line-by-line (enables newline mode)
    -f, --filter <fn>    use the given <fn> for filtering
    -m, --map <fn>       use the given <fn> for mapping
    -r, --reduce <fn>    use the given <fn> for reducing. Disabled by --lines.
    -s, --style <name>   use the <name> style
    -o, --output <name>  use the <name> outputter

The joli CLI is inspired by jog, but is specialized for working with stdin/stdout and supports using joli's 'styles' and 'outputters'.

Functions

When using --map, --filter, or --reduce you are essentialy creating functions on the command line.

Consider:

$ joli --map "_.name === 'Brian'"

Has the the eventual effect of:

data = data.filter(function( _ ) {
  return _.name === 'Brian';
});

Both --map and --filter can reference _.

--reduce is a little special because with it you can reference:

  • $ - prev value
  • _ - current value
  • i - index
  • a - the whole array of data objects

Examples

View a json file with the 'inspect' outputter:

$ cat package.json | joli -o inspect
{ name: 'joli',
  version: '0.0.3',
  description: 'Pretty-up those JSON objects.',
  main: 'index.js',
  dependencies:
   { through: '~1.1.1',
     split: '0.1.0',
     commander: '~1.0.5' },
  devDependencies: { mocha: '*' },
  scripts: { test: 'make test' },
  bin: { joli: './bin/joli' },
  repository:
   { type: 'git',
     url: 'git://github.com/cpsubrian/node-joli.git' },
  homepage: 'https://github.com/cpsubrian/node-joli',
  keywords: [ 'json', 'pretty', 'cli' ],
  author: 'Brian Link <cpsubrian@gmail.com>',
  license: 'MIT' }

View a json file with the 'keys' style:

$ cat package.json | joli -s keys
[ 'name',
  'version',
  'description',
  'main',
  'dependencies',
  'devDependencies',
  'scripts',
  'bin',
  'repository',
  'homepage',
  'keywords',
  'author',
  'license' ]

View a json file with the 'values' style:

$ cat package.json | joli -s values
[ 'joli',
  '0.0.3',
  'Pretty-up those JSON objects.',
  'index.js',
  { through: '~1.1.1', split: '0.1.0', commander: '~1.0.5' },
  { mocha: '*' },
  { test: 'make test' },
  { joli: './bin/joli' },
  { type: 'git', url: 'git://github.com/cpsubrian/node-joli.git' },
  'https://github.com/cpsubrian/node-joli',
  [ 'json', 'pretty', 'cli' ],
  'Brian Link <cpsubrian@gmail.com>',
  'MIT' ]

View a json file with a custom map function:

$ cat package.json | joli --map "'name: ' + _.name + '\nversion: ' + _.version"
name: joli
version: 0.0.3

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