xref: /external/chromium_org/third_party/simplejson/tool.py

r"""Command-line tool to validate and pretty-print JSON

Usage::

    $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m simplejson.tool
    {
        "json": "obj"
    }
    $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool
    Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)

"""
import sys
import simplejson as json

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        infile = sys.stdin
        outfile = sys.stdout
    elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
        infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
        outfile = sys.stdout
    elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
        infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
        outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb')
    else:
        raise SystemExit(sys.argv[0] + " [infile [outfile]]")
    try:
        obj = json.load(infile,
                        object_pairs_hook=json.OrderedDict,
                        use_decimal=True)
    except ValueError, e:
        raise SystemExit(e)
    json.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent='    ', use_decimal=True)
    outfile.write('\n')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()