Questions tagged [json]
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how to generate dynamic json data with emacs (macros)?
I was in a meeting yesterday where I was presenting a program that referenced a certain json file with data like this:
[
{
id: 1,
text: '...',
...
},
{
id: 2,
text: '...',
...
}
]
In ...
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Emacs, pretty print but showing spaces and \n
I'm making diagrams with plantuml and org mode, when preparing the JSONs, in order to plot well the diagram I need this representation of JSON:
(with-temp-buffer
(insert (json-encode '((calimero . ...
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Where find good json formater and validation?
Emacs 26.1. Windows 10
It's has function json-pretty-print . But it not enough for me.
Has any another better json formater and validator?
I mean the next.
Suppose I has error on json on line 26. I ...
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Get the path to the JSON element at point
Problem statement
Using Elisp, when point is on an element in a JSON datastructure (either raw JSON or an Elisp sexp of the kind generated by json.el), is there an easy way to get a json-pointer-get-...
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JSON file folding and step-by-step unfolding
I need to look at larger, quite deeply nested JSON files in Emacs. Similar to the terminal tool json-view I would like to start with the JSON file completely folded and then open each level step-by-...
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json-readtable-error during org-capture
This problem only arose today and I haven't really changed anything substantial in my init.el so I am sure what the source of the error is. Essentially, when running org-capture (and also during ...
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How do you get data by key from a json list?
I loaded some json data into a string and have elisp parsing it using the json-read-from-string function. Now I want to do is access data from the JSON by key. When I print out the data via message, ...
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json-reformat-region on file open
currently I'm working a lot with json files. They tend to be a little bigger.
I'm a little fed up with always marking the whole file and then typing M-x json-reformat-region.
Is there a way to do ...
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org export json
I'm using the JSON produced by org-export-json to display it in a virtual DOM (the output is an array like [ element_type, properties{}, children[]... ] very suitable for this).
Being not very fluent ...
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How do I filter an alist to just the properties I care about?
To effectively use a service's API, I'm leveraging json-read to turn the JSON response into an understandable data structure:
(let ((json-object-type 'alist)
(json-array-type 'list)
(...
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Get emacs to read unquoted strings in json
I am trying to use emacs-lisp to interact with a MongoDB. Here is an example of a string that mongo returns, that emacs cannot read. The problem is the unquoted ObjectId and ISODate items (if I put ...
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Accessing JSON data in elisp
{
"name": "xxxxx",
"job": "xxxxxx",
"projects": [
{
"name": "xxxxx",
"date": "xxxxx",
"about": "xxxxxxxxxx"
...
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Is there a way to check whether or not a string is valid json?
I am trying to parse a string with the json.el package, though when the string is not json unexpected things happen. Is there a way in elisp to check whether or not a provided string is actually a ...
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Outline editing, like org-mode, for JSON
I am trying to edit a Swagger JSON file in emacs. It contains large nested JSON objects, so I want to collapse and hide some of them.
I have tried origami-mode, configured as origami-c-style-parser ...
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Parsing nested json
I'm using request to grab a json file (here's one for instance: http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2015/month_06/day_10/grid.json) and trying to read the data. I'm interesting in looping ...
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How to encode empty json object in elisp?
The json package coming with Emacs 24 has function json-encode that works like this:
(json-encode '(("key" . "value")))
"{\"key\":\"value\"}"
In case there are no keys (object is empty) I get:
(...
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JSON major mode complaining about valid JSON file
I am editing a dead simple JSON file:
{
"foo": "bar"
}
Here's what I see:
Doing a C-h m I see the following minor modes running alongside JSON mode:
Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-...
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How to load json.el included in emacs instead of fallback lib included in gnus
I want to use the json.el included in 24.5, but cannot do that, because gnus includes an older version of json.el that is loaded before the one from 24.5.
When running list-load-path-shadows I got ...
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hs-minor-mode keybindings are undefined or bring up help window
I installed the json-mode package, then added this to my .emacs:
(require 'json-mode)
(add-hook 'json-mode-hook 'hs-minor-mode)
After opening a json file, I used Describe-variable on hs-minor-mode ...
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json-mode hook not being run
I have
(add-hook 'json-mode 'flymake-json-load)
in my .emacs file, but it has no effect. I have to do M-x flymake-json-load whenever I visit a .json file. Why doesn't it work?
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How to iterate over JSON list and select one element
Say I have a list of names with ids, in JSON:
(let ((json-object-type 'plist))
(setq mylist (json-read-from-string "[{\"name\": \"Adam\", \"id\": \"1\"},
{\"...
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Error when opening IPython notebook list using EIN
I am not entirely sure where to post this question (here, stackoverflow....), but I am sure some emacs experts will be able to help me here. This question is also posted here https://github.com/tkf/...
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Code-folding extensions for json
I am dealing with json files with multiple repeated blocks with just one field value(integer) changed - in fact, every changed value is just the previous corresponding value incremented. To make such ...
