[ANN] Reader to remove comments from JSON

[Giulio Iotti]

With this I am trying to win the "Most Useless Go Package 2015"--before it is even invented.

I made a super-simple Reader that removes those #-to-end-of-the-line comments as it reads a JSON-ish file (quotes and escapes are taken into account.)

Of course no formal parsing, but works generally. Most importantly, with this I can write comments in those (...ehm... awful) JSON config files we sometimes create.

Feel free to copy-paste if you find useful.

https://github.com/dullgiulio/jsoncomments

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Giulio Iotti

[Klaus Post]

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:30:43 UTC+1, Giulio Iotti wrote:

With this I am trying to win the "Most Useless Go Package 2015"--before it is even invented.

I am not sure you are making the world a better place with this package. You should probably have a disclaimer "If you intend to use this package you are probably doing something wrong" ;)

Sorry for teasing you, you probably have a good use case for it, I just couldn't resist :)

/Klaus

[Giulio Iotti]

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 12:46:17 PM UTC+1, Klaus Post wrote:

I am not sure you are making the world a better place with this package. You should probably have a disclaimer "If you intend to use this package you are probably doing something wrong" ;)

True, will do.

But I have lost my battle against JSON configuration files a while ago ;)

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Giulio Iotti 

[HaWe]

Sorry to say this, but ... it looks useful to me. Thanks for sharing.
(Use case: generate code with text/template and data from JSON file.)

[Tim Hawkins]

Perhaps we should push for the official adoption of jsonnet as a standard config format.

https://google.github.io/jsonnet/doc/

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 22:53 HaWe <hwhe...@bitloeffel.de> wrote:

Sorry to say this, but ... it looks useful to me. Thanks for sharing.
(Use case: generate code with text/template and data from JSON file.)

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[Tim Hawkins]

https://google.github.io/jsonnet/doc/

[roger peppe]

On 17 November 2015 at 15:16, Tim Hawkins <tim.th...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we should push for the official adoption of jsonnet as a standard
> config format.
>
> https://google.github.io/jsonnet/doc/

Interesting, but I'm not keen. One of the key properties of JSON is
the ability to read, process and write with no data loss. That's going
to be really hard with something like jsonnet.

I'd like to see something directly one-to-one
with JSON but syntactically more friendly. I made
rjson (github.com/rogpeppe/rjson) with this kind of
aim, but it would be nice to have better sugar for
multi-line strings.

[Marten Luter]

It's very usefull . Comments is a must in alot of config files. Even not comments itseld but it always happened that you should switchoff something and I always need to write such kind of preprocessor.