JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is widely used for transmitting data between a server and a web application (or mobile app). In Flutter (and Dart), handling JSON involves encoding Dart objects into JSON strings (serialization) and decoding JSON strings into Dart objects …

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Using Dart to process JSON can seem a complicated choice at first. There are a couple of things to be aware of when processing JSON. To build our understanding I will be taking a manual approach to hand crank through a JSON file. Obviously you shouldnt do this in the real world, but this is meant to be an educational …

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Convert CSV to JSON with JQ.

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

In a previous post I covered the task of converting JSON to CSV.

• Reference: Convert JSON to CSV.

Recently I …

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Merging JSON files with JQ.

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

If you have multiple JSON files that you want to combine, it can be tempting to write a program to perform this …

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Convert JSON to CSV with JQ.

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

Being able to move between different file format is quite a common task, so I was delighted to find a quick and …

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