Prettifies data documents to make it human readable
Takes JSON or XML from the stdin and reformats it to make it human readable, then outputs that to stdout.
<stdin> -> [ --strict | --type (XML|JSON) ] -> <stdout>» %{Array:[1,2,3],Map:{String:Foobar,Number:123.456}} -> pretty
{
"Array": [
1,
2,
3
],
"Map": {
"Number": 123.456,
"String": "Foobar"
}
}--strict If data type doesn’t have a pretty parser,
then just output stdin (default behaviour is to try every parser until
one works)--type Specify a pretty parser (supported values:
“json”, “xml”)prettyout):
Print a string to the stdout with a trailing new line charactertout): Print a string to the stdout and set it’s
data-typeformat): Reformat one data-type into another
data-typeThis document was generated from builtins/core/pretty/pretty_doc.yaml.
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