zaach / jsonlint

A JSON parser and validator with a CLI.
http://zaach.github.com/jsonlint/
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jsonlint.parse(PATH) not working #110

Open CADBOT opened 6 years ago

CADBOT commented 6 years ago

I didn't see it explicitly mentioned in the docs, but I could have swore the module interface used to take a valid file path or a json string. Perhaps not though (I would be willing to attempt a PR with the feature if interested).

Here is an example

ex.json

{
    "hi": 2
}

app.js

const jsonlint = require('jsonlint');
jsonlint.parse('./ex.json');

Also the README questions why one would ever use this module instead of JSON.parse? I'd say it's worthwhile because this module gives more user friendly error messages for malformed json files than JSON.parse :)

CADBOT commented 6 years ago

Actually, the fix was quicker than I thought. Here is a PR

prantlf commented 5 years ago

@CADBOT, the parse method expects a JSON string. Not a file path. Read the file to a string and pass the result to the parse method.