Helper for update of JSON

[alexandre-mbm]

Option 1: jsonlint

Install:

$ sudo apt-get install python-demjson

Examples:

$ jsonlint -v categories.json-backup 
categories.json-backup: line terminator characters must be escaped inside string literals: u'\n"Advogado",\n"Ae...
$ jsonlint -v categories.json 
categories.json: ok

Option 2: json.tool Python module

Example:

alexandre$ cat categories.json-backup | python -m json.tool
Invalid control character at: line 3 column 13 (char 29)

[alexandre-mbm]

Solution in shell script = option 1 + option 2

Test:

$ ./gencat.sh
Invalid control character at: line 4 column 11 (char 41)
categories.json: line terminator characters must be escaped inside string literals: u'\n"Aeroporto",\n"A...
$ ./gencat.sh
Invalid control character at: line 4 column 11 (char 41)
categories.json: line terminator characters must be escaped inside string literals: u'\n"Aeroporto",\n"A...
$ ./gencat.sh
Expecting , delimiter: line 9 column 1 (char 124)
categories.json: values must be separated by a comma: u'"Albergue"'
$ ./gencat.sh
categories.json: ok
alexandre$ 

[alexandre-mbm]

@sabas, @osmlab, this may interest you.

Example:

$ ./gencat.sh
categories.json: ok
payment.json: ok

[sabas]

Cool! :)