replaceability of pip yq?

[clux]

We use a lot of the pip version of yq because it actually feels like just jq for yaml (same handling of flags etc). However, there's a lot of confusion because the default version on brew is this, but on linux it's the python one, and there are incompatibilities. Here's the first one we hit:

• python-yq supports -r for reading raw value
• jq supports -r for reading raw value
• this project needs r as a subcommand

Any thoughts on possibly consolidating the CLI api for these things?

Edit: I know this is a big ask and probably should just be insta-closed. I was just wondering what you guys thought on this issue.

EDIT: 2023 if this matters to you, check out https://github.com/clux/whyq

[mikefarah]

I like the idea of that, having the same CLI api - hadn't actually thought of it.

At the moment I'm using the cobra go lang package to handle arguments, which is where is gets that subcommand syntax. Mind you I think that's actually more typical of cli apps to have '-' arguments as flags to a command/subcommand rather than subcommands - but anyway as you say that how both jq and the other yq work.

Have to give this some thought.

[gsemet]

I prefere this yq interface, but it lacks YAML anchor support :( It is possible for both project to work on redefining the name so there is no conflict (I install this yq in /usr/local/bin/yyq)?

[voiski]

So, can we just bring the same solution of the mentioned kislyuk/yq version? He just wraps jq inside it, so it is why it has all the jq flags. You can use the jq filter feature for now and try to port later.

[voiski]

For anyone that reaches this card, here is a workaround:

yq r -j file.yq | jq $filter_command | yq -

[mikefarah]

The (albeit moonshot) point of yq is to have it dependency free - so I don't want to wrap jq (there are other utilities that do this already.

That said, if you already have jq (or don't mind installing it) piping totally works

[voiski]

I saw this similar discussion in jq issues and they have some other solutions. One is quite interesting and owe attention.
jqlang/jq#467 (comment)

EDIT:

Sorry, I got it wrong thinking it made jq portable together with the wrapper =(

[voiski]

So, checking the latest it has standalone binaries that will make your life easier. Forget pip.
https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases

wget -O jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.6/jq-linux64
chmod +x jq
yq r -j file.yq | jq $filter_command | yq -

[Blacksmoke16]

I saw this similar discussion in jq issues and they have some other solutions. One is quite interesting and owe attention.
stedolan/jq#467 (comment)

EDIT:

Sorry, I got it wrong thinking it made jq portable together with the wrapper =(

The binary itself requires jq to work. However if you install it via snap then jq gets installed as well since I made it a dependency.

Also will install jq if you install via brew.

brew install oq

[mikefarah]

Latest v4 version now supports jq like syntax (though not everything jq can do yet)