edumentab/jsonmask

Provides functions to select parts of a JSON-like structure

jsonmask's Issues

No convenience sub to compile a mask

It'd be nice to provide a sub compile-mask or some such that can be used to compile a mask, to ease re-using one many times.

Add a wildcard `*`

If you want to limit some subkeys, but keep everything else, you currently have to do something like:

mask('a(b,c),-some_fake_key', %);

It'd probably be better to add this instead:

mask('a(b,c),*', %);

mask('*,a(b,c)', %);

Strict mode

Strict mode might add two things:

• Require the user to specify if they want to opt-in to the array behavior (probably be able to mask "either a scalar or an array", "only accept arrays", "only accept scalars" -- we always allow both at the moment).
• Error on missing keys

Not sure if it should be 2 different flags, or a single one, or just become the default.