read-json-sequence

Read a sequence of valid JSON from STDIN

readJSONSequence internally reads in from STDIN and produces an array of JSON that the callback should accept and deal with.

Note: The numbers are converted into "lossless numbers" so install the lossless-json library and use their stringify method to convert the JSON array to a string. See Example below:

Example

npm i lossless-json read-json-sequence

Add the following to a file (say index.js):

const readJSONSequence = require("read-json-sequence")

// Parse JSON without risk of losing numeric information.
const LosslessJSON = require('lossless-json');

readJSONSequence(printJSONArray)

// JSON[] -> void
function printJSONArray(jsonArr) {
	return console.log(LosslessJSON.stringify(jsonArr))
}

$ node index.js

Will consume user input until you press ^C. You can also pipe in from a file.

Let's say you give it:

1"hello"{
	
	"boy":"good"
}[]2.00000000000000000000000000

The result is an array of each JSON here but you can do whatever you want in the callback to readJSONSequence.

[1,"hello",{"boy":"good"},[],2.00000000000000000000000000]