What is JMESPath

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Lowell Alleman edited this page Nov 17, 2018 · 2 revisions

What is this JMESPath?

JMESPath is used prominently in a few other projects/tools that you have already used:

Both AWS and the Azure's az CLI tools use JMESPath for their --query filter to reduce external JSON processing
Ansible json_query() filters allow for complex structures to be converted into simple loops
jp CLI tool is the command line interface for JMESPath

What JMESPath is NOT

Be careful not to confuse JMESPath with the following. While they all share some commonalities:

The jq command
jsonpath
Splunk's spath command.

Learn more

More information can be found here http://jmespath.org/

Live Tutorials: http://jmespath.org/tutorial.html