Formatting a JSONL (JSON Lines) file

[DrGriff]

I'm starting to work a lot with JSONL files (JSON Lines).

I know that the idea behind a JSONL file is that each line in the file is a separate JSON "object", but that makes it very hard to read. I know that I can Format or Compress each line individually, but it would be great if I could Format the whole document to read it and then Compress the whole document again to use it.

[molsonkiko]

FWIW JsonTools has had support for JSON Lines documents for some time. The tree view works with JSON Lines; no need to reformat them first.

@SinghRajenM
If you're curious how I implemented the JSON Lines parser, the source code is here.

[SinghRajenM]

@molsonkiko thanks for the info.
Currently, this plugin uses rapidjson under the hood to parse json. I am exploring some other options as rapidjson's sax parser does provide line/position information. I am trying to figure some existing parser instead of write owner custom parser.

[WolfgangHG]

Just an idea: would it make sense to convert the JSONL to "real" json, which can be easily formatted?
This would mean adding square brackets around the file content, and adding a comma at the end of each line:

Original json:

{"prop1":"value1.1","prop2":"value2.1"}
{"prop1":"value1.2","prop2":"value2.2"}

Converted json:

[
  {
    "prop1": "value1.1", 
    "prop2": "value2.1"
  },
  { 
    "prop1": "value1.2", 
    "prop2": "value2.2"
  }
]

A menu item "convert JSONL to JSON" could do this.