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147 points wofo | 2 comments | 27 Oct 25 16:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source

I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users.

I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?

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lenkite ◴[27 Oct 25 18:02 UTC] No.45724301[source]▶
There are a ridiculous number of JSON query/path languages. Wish all the authors got together and harmonized on a standard.
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1. cmckn ◴[27 Oct 25 18:52 UTC] No.45724843[source]▶
The AWS CLI supports JMESPath (https://jmespath.org) for the `--query` flag. I don't think I've run into anything else that uses it. Pretty similar to JSONPath IIRC.
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2. gegtik ◴[27 Oct 25 19:12 UTC] No.45725086[source]▶
azure tools also support JMESPath