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Plain text to json format into sublime text


How can I convert this plain text that is recognized as json format and see json format into sublime text.

[{ "page": 1, "paragraph": 1, "text1": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit ame", "text2": "er bibendum at, quis tempor purus euism"}, {"page": 1, "paragraph": 2, "text1": "uismod suspe", "text2": "Mattis euismod nec p"}, { "page": 1, "paragraph": 3, "text1": "venenatis litora cum nibh arcu porta", "text2": "augue tempor"}]

Any idea to help me????


Solution

  • Prettify/Minify/Query/Goto/Validate/Lint JSON plugin for Sublime Text 2 & 3

    From the github documentation Sublime Text 3 pretty JSON

    Installation

    Install this sublime text 2/3 package via Package Control search for package: "Pretty JSON" or manually install cd (for example on Mac it is ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime
    Text\ 2/Packages or ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text
    3/Packages) git clone SublimePrettyJson.git

    Usage

    To prettify JSON, make selection of json (or else it will try to use full view buffer) and press keys:

    Linux: ctrl+alt+j

    Windows: ctrl+alt+j

    OS X: cmd+ctrl+j

    or through Command Palette Ctrl+Shift+P find "Pretty JSON: Format (Pretty Print) JSON" (you can search for part of it like 'pretty format')

    If selection is empty and configuration entry use_entire_file_if_no_selection is true, tries to prettify whole file

    If JSON is not valid it will be displayed in status bar of Sublime Text

    Validate JSON

    Using Command Palette Ctrl+Shift+P find "Pretty JSON: Validate" (you can search for partial string 'validate') this will validate selection or full file and will show in dialog if it's valid or invalid. In case of found errors view will jump to error and will highlight it

    Compress / Minify JSON

    Using Command Palette Ctrl+Shift+P find "Pretty JSON: Minify (compress) JSON" (you can search for part of it like 'json minify') this will make selection or full buffer as single line JSON which later you can use in command lines (curl/httpie) or somewhere else...

    To map a key combination like Ctrl+Alt+M to the Minify command, you can add a setting like this to your .sublime-keymap file (eg: Packages/User/Default (Windows).sublime-keymap):

    { "keys": [ "ctrl+alt+m" ], "command": "un_pretty_json" }

    Convert JSON to XML

    Using Command Palette Ctrl+Shift+P search fo "Pretty JSON: JSON 2 XML" (you can search for part of it like '2XML') this will convert your selected JSON of full buffer to XML and replace syntax and buffer to XML output

    ./jQ query/filter usage

    If on your machine "./jq" tool is available with ctrl+atl+shift+j you can run against your json. output will be opened in new view so you can once again apply jq on new buffer

    You can find instructions of tool here:

    jQ lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

    Default configuration

    use_entire_file_if_no_selection - true

    indent - 2 int used for how many spaces to use for indent, replace it with value "\t" and tabs will be used instead

    sort_keys - false

    ensure_ascii - false

    line_separator - ","

    value_separator - ": " value separator in config, so if you need to get rid of extra space you can remove it with this param

    keep_arrays_single_line - false if we need to re-structure arrays and make them single-line

    max_arrays_line_length - 120 if array for example '["a", "b", 123213, ....]' length will reach max it will be kept multi-line (for beauty)

    pretty_on_save - false do we need to automatically Pretty JSON on save

    validate_on_save - true do we need validate JSON files on each save

    Using tabs for indentation

    You can change configuration key indent to string value "\t" or any other string

    "indent" : "\t", Be sure "Indent Using Spaces" is unchecked otherwise you will not see effect and ST2/3 will convert it back to spaces