jacques

The AWKward JSON Processor

Jacques aims to address some concerns with JSON

• Lack of comment support - jacques supports comments
• Executable Code - jacques files are in no way executable

Jacques is ever so slightly inspired by EBCDIC

Jacque uses the EBCDIC # character converted to ASCII { as a comment.

example.jacques

{ Start Schema Definition
¯\_(ツ)¯\_
{ This is a comment
"event": "puppetconf",
"inspired_by": ["#beerops","#Canada"],
{ End Schema Definition
_/¯(ツ)_/¯

Implementation

Jacques is written in AWK.

Currently only the jacques encoder function is implemented

Usage

jacques attempts to naively detect the type of file based on the file extension.

./jacques -- -h
   Default behavior attempts to naively detect the type of file
  -e encode
  -d decode
  -h this help

./jacques sample/simple.json

¯\_(ツ)¯\_
    "id": 1,
    "name": "A green door",
    "price": 12.50,
    "tags": ["home", "green"]
_/¯(ツ)_/¯

Jacques Is Flexible

Any use of the patterns ¯\_([^\x00-\x7F])¯\_ and _/¯([^\x00-\x7F])_/¯ will be correspondingly replaced with { and '}'. That is you can choose any single non-ascii character in the schema start/end tokens.

Non-exhaustive examples:

• ϖ as ¯\_(ϖ)¯\_ and _/¯(ϖ)_/¯
• 𝛑 as ¯\_(𝛑)¯\_ and _/¯(𝛑)_/¯

You can even mix and match your non-ascii characters in the same file!!!

Reviews

Jacques is exactly as useless and half as entertaining as one might expect. -- Shawn Ferry