I am doing something fundamentally wrong but just can't see what, could some kind person point out my fault with jq or JSON here?
I have the the following child objects contained within an array “entries
”
{
"profile": {
"name": "TesterRun1",
"download": {
"entries": [{
"ENTRY_A": "testserver1_place_com",
"store": "A",
"type": "direct"
},
{
"ENTRY_B": "testserver2_anotherplace_com",
"store": "B",
"type": "bypass"
},
{
"ENTRY_B": "testserver2_anotherplace_com",
"store": "A",
"type": "bypass"
}
]
}
}
}
I wish to convert these to an array accessible by bash via the jq function “to_entries
” using the below query but so far nothing!
jq 'to_entries|.[]|.profile.download.entries|select(.store=="A")|.[]'
You can see here that nothing is returned on JQ Play - enter link description here
Please help save my sanity, what am I doing wrong
to_entries
has nothing whatsoever to do with exposing JQ results to bash. Rather, it takes each entry in a JSON object and emits a {"key": key, "value": value}
pair.
That can be useful, if you want to identify and extract arbitrary keys. For example:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
jq_script='
.profile.download.entries[]
| select(.store == "A")
| to_entries[]
| select(.key != "store")
| select(.key != "type")
| [.key, .value]
| @tsv
'
declare -A array=( )
while IFS=$'\t' read -r key value; do
array[$key]=$value
done < <(jq -r "$jq_script")
# print array output
declare -p array
...will, when given your input on stdin, emit (albeit on a single line, without the whitespace changes):
declare -A array=([ENTRY_A]="testserver1_place_com"
[ENTRY_B]="testserver2_anotherplace_com" )
...which I assume, for lack of any better description in the question, is what you actually want.
Here is a slightly different approach (with some cleaned-up data) which captures the output from jq
into separate column arrays.
#!/bin/bash
data='{
"profile": {
"name": "TesterRun1",
"download": {
"entries": [
{
"entry": "testserver1_place_com",
"store": "A",
"type": "direct"
},
{
"entry": "testserver2_anotherplace_com",
"store": "B",
"type": "bypass"
},
{
"entry": "testserver2_anotherplace_com",
"store": "A",
"type": "bypass"
}
]
}
}
}'
filter='
.profile.download.entries[]
| select(.store == "A")
| .entry, .store, .type
'
declare -a ENTRY
declare -a STORE
declare -a TYPE
i=0
while read -r entry; read -r store; read -r type; do
ENTRY[$i]="$entry"
STORE[$i]="$store"
TYPE[$i]="$type"
i=$((i + 1))
done < <(jq -Mr "$filter" <<< "$data")
declare -p ENTRY STORE TYPE
Output
declare -a ENTRY='([0]="testserver1_place_com" [1]="testserver2_anotherplace_com")'
declare -a STORE='([0]="A" [1]="A")'
declare -a TYPE='([0]="direct" [1]="bypass")'