com.purplehillsbooks.json

Class JSONFormatter

java.lang.Object

com.purplehillsbooks.json.JSONFormatter

public class JSONFormatter
extends java.lang.Object

The purpose of this class is to provide a command line that will read a JSON file, clean it up, and write it out again in canonical form. That is, the keys of all the objects will be put in ASCII alphabetical order according to unicode code-point and not sorted according to any particular language sort order. The objects will then be formattted, and the values will then be properly indented with 2 spaces per indent level. The output is to the file name specified in the second paramter.

JSONFormatter {input-file-name} {output-file-name}

If the file being read is not in valid JSON format, then an error will be reported and no output produced.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JSONFormatter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) The purpose of this class is to provide a command line that will read a JSON file, clean it up, and write it out again in canonical form.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JSONFormatter

public JSONFormatter()

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

The purpose of this class is to provide a command line that will read a JSON file, clean it up, and write it out again in canonical form. That is, the keys of all the objects will be put in ASCII alphabetical order according to unicode code-point and not sorted according to any particular language sort order. The objects will then be formattted, and the values will then be properly indented with 2 spaces per indent level. The output is to the file name specified in the second paramter.

JSONFormatter {input-file-name} {output-file-name}

If the file being read is not in valid JSON format, then an error will be reported and no output produced.