grunt-json-fmt

Grunt plugin for JSON formatting with json-fmt

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-json-fmt --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-json-fmt");

The "json_fmt" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named json_fmt to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
    json_fmt: {
        options: {
            // Task-specific options go here.
        },
        your_target: {
            // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
        },
    },
});

Options

This plugin accepts the same options of the JSONFormatter class used internally. See json-fmt's page for more informations.

Usage Examples

Elaborates the given JSON files and writes the results inside the dest/ directory, using the JSONFormatter default minifying options:

grunt.initConfig({
    json_fmt: {
        files: {
            "dest/": [ "src/foo.json", "src/bar.json" ],
        }
    }
});

An explicit destination file name can be given, but it will be used only if the source files are just one:

grunt.initConfig({
    json_fmt: {
        files: {
            "dest/output.json": [ "src/input.json" ],
        }
    }
});

Options can be given to override the default minification options:

grunt.initConfig({
    json_fmt: {
        options: {
            newline: "\r\n",
            indentObject: true
        }
        files: { ... }
    }
});

Notes

In Grunt, string options have usually their linefeed sequences normalized via grunt.util.normalizedlf during the process of option template rendering. This is a problem especially with newline, but the plugin is smart enough to detect if the option is the result of just a newline normalization, using the raw value instead.

Yes, this readme file has been generated with the gruntplugin template, which also gave the basis for everything else. I regret nothing.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

License

MIT. See LICENSE for more details.