[TW-5 Plugin] New Plugin - TW5-JsonManglerPlugin!

[Joshua Fontany]

HelloThere!!!

I'm so excited to share this new plugin with the community.!

TW5-JsonManglerPlugin by Joshua Fontany, v 2.0.0

This plugin changes the methods tiddlywiki uses to retrieve and set values in json data tiddlers.

It does this in a way that aims for backwards compatibility.

It also introduces new features, widgets, and filter operators:

• Allows TextReferences to target nested values ("complex json").
• New buttons in the edit-template for json data tiddlers.
• An automatic alert/error notification when calling message actions on an invalid json data tiddler.
• $jsonmangler, a widget that catches messages to edit json data tiddlers.
• An updated ''indexes[] operator'' that can show all index paths. If given the argument verbose, it will list all paths, including the root path to nested objects and arrays.
• A new ''hasindex[] operator'' that returns only those input tiddlers that have a value the index path argument.
• A new ''tsort[] operator'' that uses a //tokenized sorting method// to resolve pesky sorting problems.

Further documentation is available in the example wiki: https://joshuafontany.github.io/TW5-JsonManglerPlugin/

This plugin is a work in progress; please report any issues on GitHub: https://github.com/joshuafontany/TW5-JsonMangerPlugin/issues

Repository Link: https://github.com/joshuafontany/TW5-JsonMangerPlugin

[Joshua Fontany]

Also posting here for the more technical savvy. More eyes will catch unoptimized code or places to do things differently. I built a bunch of functional tests into the example wiki,  but no idea about perf imoacts... 

Mahalo (thanks!) for any feedback!

[Simon Huber]

Hi Joshua, this is pretty cool 8-) !

When trying some examples I noticed that the action-listops example adds "null" to the json when - I think - it should be just "" (empty) ... then, when you populate the index again, "null" results as an additional item