Question: JSONLines support

[tsenart]

Thanks for this project. It looks very promising and match made in heaven for integration with Vegeta in ways similar to these: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta#usage-real-time-analysis

Vegeta can dump results in JSONLines format and I couldn't figure out if JSONPath supports this.

A current workaround is to use a rather difficult jq expression to convert JSONLines to JSON: jq -nr '"[", try (input|tojson, repeat(",\n\(input|tojson)")), "]"'

[sgreben]

Hey, thanks for opening the issue! I'll just add JSONLines support as another alternative to CSV and JSON. Until that's done, you might want to use the simpler jq -s to collect JSONLines into an array, e.g.:

$ echo 1 2 3  '{"a":123}' | jq -s
[
  1,
  2,
  3,
  {
    "a": 123
  }
]

[tsenart]

@sgreben: Nice!

[tsenart]

To be honest, with such a simple jq command at hand (jq -s), I don't know if it's worth it to implement it directly in jp. I'd just clearly document how to work with JSONLines using that jq command.

[sgreben]

@tsenart yeah, that makes sense. I've added a JSONLines section to the README now.

I am thinking about significantly re-designing the CLI, perhaps that will be a better time to add "native" JSONLines support. I'd close the issue for now - is that ok with you?

[tsenart]

SGTM