Object construction with jq

jq is a powerful command-line tool to help you parse, analyze and script json output.

My current problem in jq is to turn this:

{
  "modules": [
  {
    "name": "x",
    "size": 10
  },
  {
    "name": "y",
    "size": 20
  }
  ]
}

into this:

{x: 10}
{y: 20}

This is possible using object construction:

jq '.modules[] | {(.name): .size}'

You pipe the result of the initial attribute as an array syntax .modules[] to an object {}. To use an attribute as a key you put parens around the attribute (.name) and declare that the value should be a different attribute .size.

Read more in the jq docs

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