Define format in jq code #1228
Define format in jq code #1228
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Rename the C builtin "format" to "_format". Define proxy function "format" in the file builtin.jq. To add a new format at runtime the user can redefine it.
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Hi. This is a wonderful contribution. I may leave |
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Great! |
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I've realized there is a corner case that can cause |
Mimic how the [list] command in Tcl does it. This both gets rid of
the redundant quoting of "{" and "}" and fixes the lack of necessary
quoting in some cases.
Add more tests for @tcl.
This makes the output format more idiomatic for Tcl.
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Done. Now I forgot to say that I appreciate you complimenting this change. I am a fan of the purely functional language that jq has grown. |
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Ping. Any updates on this? |
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I'd love to see this in jq. I could see this formatter plugin being used to output YAML, hocon, dhall, and some others that are effectively supersets of JSON. |
The proposed change makes it easier to extend
formatwith new formats (#1227). The reasoning is that it is often more straightforward to implement a serialization algorithm recursively in a high-level functional language than in C.I've implemented serialization to Tcl dictionaries (#685) in pure jq code as an example. This version differs slightly from the one in #685 to work around forward slash (
\) escaping issues insrc/builtin.jq.Perhaps the functionEdit: Done.totclshould be renamed_totcl.