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147 points wofo | 2 comments | 27 Oct 25 16:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.539s | 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?

1. eknkc ◴[27 Oct 25 18:55 UTC] No.45724888[source]▶
Most alternatives being talked about are working on query strings (like `$.phoneNumbers[:1].type`) which is fine but can not be easily modeled / modified by code.

Things like https://jsonlogic.com/ works better if you wish to expose a rest api with a defined query schema or something like that. Instead of accepting a query `string`. This seems better as in you have a string format and a concrete JSON format. Also APIs to convert between them.

Also, if you are building a filter interface, having a structured representation helps:

https://react-querybuilder.js.org/demo?outputMode=export&exp...

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2. throwaway091025 ◴[27 Oct 25 19:14 UTC] No.45725110[source]▶
JSON logic is nice, but for example, the Python bindings were last updated 8 years ago