grunt-json-merge

0.2.2 • Public • Published

grunt-json-merge

Grunt plugin to merge JSON files handling override of keys

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4

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-merge --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-json-merge');

The "json_merge" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    options: {
      replacer: null,
      space: " "
    },
    your_target: {
      files: { 'dest/merged.json': ['src/a.json','src/b.json'] },
    },
  },
});

Options

options.replacer

Type: Function or Array Default value: null

Replacer option for JSON.stringify as specified in documentation

options.space

Type: String Default value: \t

Spacer string for JSON.stringify as specified in documentation

Usage Examples

General

Json files will be merged and colliding keys will be overwrite from latest to first file defined in src parameter. So in this case:

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    files: { 'dest/merged.json': ['src/a.json','src/b.json'] },
  },
});

Properties in file b will overwrite properties in file a. For further information read documentation of underscoreDeepExtend which is internally used to merge properties

Default Options

Merge all files .json in a direcotry to create a merged file specified as destination

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    options: {},
    files: {
      'dest/merged.json': ['src/*.json'],
    },
  },
});

Custom Options

Merge all files .json in a direcotry to create a merged file specified as destination. In this case we use custom spaces which are four spaes as you can see in options

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    options: {
      space: '    '
    },
    files: {
      'dest/merged.json': ['src/*.json'],
    },
  },
});

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.

Release History

0.2.2

  • Readme improvements 0.2.0
  • Powerful merge 0.1.0
  • Base functionalities

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