jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.

Inspired by jid and jiq.

Features

• Interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor
  • Syntax highlighting for JSON
  • Use jaq to apply jq filter
    • This eliminates the need for users to prepare jq on their own
• Configurable features via TOML configuration
  • Toggle hint message display
  • Adjust UI reactivity (debounce times and animation speed)
  • Editor appearance and behavior
  • JSON viewer styling
  • Adjust completion feature display and behavior
  • Keybinds
• Capable of accommodating various format
  • Input: File, stdin
  • Data: A JSON or multiple JSON structures that can be deserialized with StreamDeserializer, such as JSON Lines
• Auto-completion for the filter
  • Only supports:
    • Identity
    • Object Identifier-Index
    • Array Index
• Hint message to evaluate the filter

Installation

Homebrew

See here for more info.

brew install jnv

Or install via Homebrew Tap:

brew install ynqa/tap/jnv

MacPorts

See here for more info.

sudo port install jnv

Nix / NixOS

See package entry on search.nixos.org for more info.

nix-shell -p jnv

conda-forge

See here for more info.

pixi global install jnv
# or
cat data.json | pixi exec jnv
# or
conda install jnv

Docker

Build (In the near future, the image will be available on something of registries)

docker build -t jnv .

And Run (The following commad is just an example. Please modify the path to the file you want to mount)

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd)/debug.json:/jnv/debug.json jnv /jnv/debug.json

Cargo

cargo install jnv

Examples

cat data.json | jnv
# or
jnv data.json

Keymap

Key	Action
Ctrl + C	Exit
Ctrl + Q	Copy jq filter to clipboard
Ctrl + O	Copy JSON to clipboard
Shift + ↑, Shift + ↓	Switch to another mode

Editor mode (default)

Key	Action
Tab	Enter suggestion
←	Move cursor left
→	Move cursor right
Ctrl + A	Move cursor to line start
Ctrl + E	Move cursor to line end
Backspace	Delete character before cursor
Ctrl + U	Clear entire line
Alt + B	Move the cursor to the previous nearest character within set(.,|,(,),[,])
Alt + F	Move the cursor to the next nearest character within set(.,|,(,),[,])
Ctrl + W	Erase to the previous nearest character within set(.,|,(,),[,])
Alt + D	Erase to the next nearest character within set(.,|,(,),[,])

Suggestion in Editor (after Tab)

Key	Action
Tab, ↓	Select next suggestion
↑	Select previous suggestion
Others	Return to editor

JSON viewer mode

Key	Action
↑, Ctrl + K	Move up
↓, Ctrl + J	Move down
Ctrl + H	Move to last entry
Ctrl + L	Move to first entry
Enter	Toggle fold
Ctrl + P	Expand all
Ctrl + N	Collapse all

Usage

JSON navigator and interactive filter leveraging jq
Usage: jnv [OPTIONS] [INPUT]
Examples:


Read from a file:
jnv data.json


Read from standard input:
cat data.json | jnv


Arguments:
[INPUT]  Optional path to a JSON file. If not provided or if "-" is specified, reads from standard input
Options:
-c, --config <CONFIG_FILE>             Path to the configuration file.
--default-filter <DEFAULT_FILTER>  Default jq filter to apply to the input data
-h, --help                             Print help (see more with '--help')
-V, --version                          Print version

Configuration

jnv uses a TOML format configuration file to customize various features. The configuration file is loaded in the following order of priority:

1. Path specified on the command line (-c or --config option)
2. Default configuration file path

Default Configuration File Location

Following the dirs crate, the default configuration file location for each platform is as follows:

• Linux: ~/.config/jnv/config.toml
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/jnv/config.toml
• Windows: C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\jnv\config.toml

If the configuration file does not exist, it will be automatically created on first run.

Configuration Options

The following settings are available in config.toml:

# Whether to hide the hint message
no_hint = false
Editor settings
[editor]
Editor mode ("Insert" or "Overwrite")
mode = "Insert"
Word break characters
word_break_chars = [".", "|", "(", ")", "[", "]"]
Theme when editor is focused
[editor.theme_on_focus]
prefix = "❯❯ "
prefix_style = { foreground = "blue" }
active_char_style = { background = "magenta" }
inactive_char_style = {}
Theme when editor is not focused
[editor.theme_on_defocus]
prefix = "▼ "
prefix_style = { foreground = "blue", attributes = ["Dim"] }
active_char_style = { attributes = ["Dim"] }
inactive_char_style = { attributes = ["Dim"] }
JSON display settings
[json]
Maximum number of JSON objects to read from stream
max_streams =
JSON theme settings
[json.theme]
indent = 2
curly_brackets_style = { attributes = ["Bold"] }
square_brackets_style = { attributes = ["Bold"] }
key_style = { foreground = "cyan" }
string_value_style = { foreground = "green" }
number_value_style = {}
boolean_value_style = {}
null_value_style = { foreground = "grey" }
Completion feature settings
[completion]
lines = 3
cursor = "❯ "
active_item_style = { foreground = "grey", background = "yellow" }
inactive_item_style = { foreground = "grey" }
search_result_chunk_size = 100
search_load_chunk_size = 50000
Keybind settings
[keybinds]
Application exit key
exit = [{ Key = { modifiers = "CONTROL", code = { Char = "c" } } }]
Copy query to clipboard key
copy_query = [{ Key = { modifiers = "CONTROL", code = { Char = "q" } } }]
Copy result to clipboard key
copy_result = [{ Key = { modifiers = "CONTROL", code = { Char = "o" } } }]
Mode switch keys
switch_mode = [
{ Key = { code = "Down", modifiers = "SHIFT" } },
{ Key = { code = "Up", modifiers = "SHIFT" } }
]
Editor operation keybinds
[keybinds.on_editor]
(Details omitted)
JSON viewer keybinds
[keybinds.on_json_viewer]
(Details omitted)
Application reactivity settings
[reactivity_control]
Delay time after query input
query_debounce_duration = "600ms"
Redraw delay time after window resize
resize_debounce_duration = "200ms"
Spinner animation update interval
spin_duration = "300ms"

For more details on configuration, please refer to default.toml

[!WARNING] Depending on the type of terminal and environment, characters and styles may not be displayed properly. Specific key bindings and decorative characters may not display or function correctly in certain terminal emulators.

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