bungle/lua-resty-jq

LuaJIT FFI bindings to jq

lua-resty-jq

lua-resty-jq is a small LuaJIT FFI wrapper to jq

Hello World with lua-resty-jq

-- <example-input> from https://api.github.com/repos/stedolan/jq/commits?per_page=5
local jq = require "resty.jq".new()

jq:compile("[ .[] | {message: .commit.message, name: .commit.committer.name} ]")
local output = jq:filter(<example-input>)

print(output)

jq:teardown()

Running the above code will output (or similar):

[
  {
    "message": "Add some missing code quoting to the manual",
    "name": "William Langford"
  },
  {
    "message": "Reduce allocation on string multiplication",
    "name": "William Langford"
  },
  {
    "message": "Fix multiple string multiplication",
    "name": "William Langford"
  },
  {
    "message": "Fix error handling in strftime",
    "name": "William Langford"
  },
  {
    "message": "Makefile: prepend srcdir to jq.1.prebuilt to fix out of source compilation",
    "name": "William Langford"
  }
]

new

syntax: jq, err = require("resty.jq").new()

Allocates a libjq context.

teardown

syntax: jq:teardown()

Destroys the libjq context, freeing resources.

compile

syntax: ok, err = jq:compile(program)

Returns true if the program was compiled, otherwise nil and the error compilation failed.

Note it is not currently possible to inspect details of the compilation error. If in doubt, try your program in the CLI jq.

filter

syntax: res, err = jq:filter(data, options)

Filters data using the previously compiled program. The options table can contain flags which alter the behaviour of the filter, similar to a subset of the CLI options to jq:

• compact_output: Returns output in a compact form without additional spacing, and with each JSON object on a single line. Defaults to true. Set to false for "pretty" output.
• raw_output: Outputs as raw strings, not JSON quoted. Default is false.
• join_output: As raw_output but in addition does not output newline separators. Default is false.
• ascii_output: jq usually outputs non-ASCII Unicode codepoints as UTF-8, even if the input specified them as escape sequences (like "\u03bc"). Using this option, you can force jq to produce pure ASCII output with every non-ASCII character replaced with the equivalent escape sequence. Default is false.
• sort_keys: Output the fields of each object with the keys in sorted order. Default is false.

See Also

• lua-jq

License

lua-resty-jq uses two clause BSD license.

Copyright (c) 2020 – 2021 Aapo Talvensaari, James Hurst
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