Show more information when JSON can't be imported with sqlite-utils insert

[voltagex]

I am currently trying to import the JSON export of my data from Discord, specifically activity/reporting/events-*.json

sqlite-utils.exe insert test.db reporting events-2023-00000-of-00001.json
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Error: Invalid JSON - use --csv for CSV or --tsv for TSV files

Please show more information as to why this is invalid, if possible.

I am using version 3.30 with Python 3.10 on Windows 11.

[simonw]

Was this a newline-delimited JSON file perhaps?

[simonw]

Here's an improvement:

% sqlite-utils insert /tmp/b.db blah /tmp/blah.txt
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Error: Invalid JSON - use --csv for CSV or --tsv for TSV files

JSON error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)