Best approach to create a nested JSON object

[akalpaki]

Best approach to create a nested JSON object

[philshafer]

Please help me understand what you're looking for. Is it just a passthru, like::

const char *foo = "{ "one": 4, "two": 55 }";
xo_emit("foo: {foo/J}", foo);

where you are wanting::

"foo": { "one": 4, "two": 55 }

What would this for the "--libxo xml" or "pretty", given that I don't want to carry a JSON parser? I guess I could punt on both of those and make:

{ "one": 4, "two": 55 }

and ignore pretty (which would be pretty ugly).

Thanks,
Phil

[akalpaki]

My use case was creating a JSON structure which contained a nested JSON object as one of the fields. In my use case I'm using the xo cli utility to generate the JSON. I don't remember what the exact issue I ran into is, but I solved it with jq. The jq equivalent is:

formatJSON()
{
jq -n \
--arg orgid "${orgid}" \
--arg tokenid "${tokenid}" \
--arg name "$name" \
--argjson filters "${filters}" \
'{organizationId: ($orgid|tonumber), tokenId: $tokenid, name: $name, filters: ($filters|tostring)}'
}

I ran into issues when I was trying to generate the filters field