I have a JSON like this (sample.json):
{
"sheet1": [
{
"hostname": "sv001",
"role": "web",
"ip1": "172.17.0.3"
},
{
"hostname": "sv002",
"role": "web",
"ip1": "172.17.0.4"
},
{
"hostname": "sv003",
"role": "db",
"ip1": "172.17.0.5",
"ip2": "172.18.0.5"
}
],
"sheet2": [
{
"hostname": "sv004",
"role": "web",
"ip1": "172.17.0.6"
},
{
"hostname": "sv005",
"role": "db",
"ip1": "172.17.0.7"
},
{
"hostname": "vsv006",
"role": "db",
"ip1": "172.17.0.8"
}
],
"sheet3": []
}
I want to extract data like this:
jq '(something command)' sample.json
{
"web": {
"hosts": [
"172.17.0.3",
"172.17.0.4"
]
},
"db": {
"hosts": [
"172.17.0.5"
]
}
}
Is it possible to perform the reconstruction with jq map? (I will reuse the result for ansible inventory.)
Here's a short, straight-forward and efficient solution -- efficient in part because it avoids group_by
by courtesy of the following generic helper function:
def add_by(f;g): reduce .[] as $x ({}; .[$x|f] += [$x|g]);
.sheet1
| add_by(.role; .ip1)
| map_values( {hosts: .} )
This produces the required output:
{
"web": {
"hosts": [
"172.17.0.3",
"172.17.0.4"
]
},
"db": {
"hosts": [
"172.17.0.5"
]
}
}