Having trouble creating simple json

[hacktek]

Hey, great job on this.

I'm trying to create what I believe would be a pretty simple json with nested objects very similar to Youtube's "add to playlist":

{
'snippet': {
'playlistId': '{PLAYLIST_ID}',
'resourceId': {
'kind': 'youtube#video',
'videoId': '{VIDEO_ID}'
}
'position': 0
}
}

However, I for the life of me can't get "playlistId" to be inside of "snippet". Is this possible with jshon? What am I missing?

Thanks!

[hacktek]

Answering my own question here, seems I was able to do it like this:

$ jshon -n {} -i snippet -a -n {} -p -s 12345 -i playlistId -p -a -n {} -i resourceId -e resourceId -s youtube -i kind -s 67890 -i videoId -p -s 0 -i position -p <<< "{}"
{
"snippet": {
"playlistId": "12345",
"resourceId": {
"kind": "youtube",
"videoId": "67890"
},
"position": "0"
}
}

Not sure if it's efficiend but it's working.

[zot]

Instead of building up the entire JSON object by hand, you may want to use
jshon to edit a template structure. This should simplify your code.
Here's an example. This takes this structure as input:

{
"snippet": {
"position": 0,
"playlistId": 33,
"resourceId": {
"kind": "youtube",
"videoId": 67890
}
}
}

edits it like this:

jshon <<<
'{"snippet":{"playlistId":33,"resourceId":{"kind":"youtube","videoId":67890},"position":0}}'
-e snippet -s 34 -i playlistId -e resourceId -s 67891 -i videoId -p -p

and returns this structure:

{
"snippet": {
"position": 0,
"playlistId": "34",
"resourceId": {
"kind": "youtube",
"videoId": "67891"
}
}
}

-- Bill

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, hacktek [email protected] wrote:

Answering my own question here, seems I was able to do it like this:

$ jshon -n {} -i snippet -a -n {} -p -s 12345 -i playlistId -p -a -n {} -i
resourceId -e resourceId -s youtube -i kind -s 67890 -i videoId -p -s 0 -i
position -p <<< "{}"
{
"snippet": {
"playlistId": "12345",
"resourceId": {
"kind": "youtube",
"videoId": "67890"
},
"position": "0"
}
}

Not sure if it's efficiend but it's working.

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