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

Installation

By Package Control

1. Download & Install Sublime Text 3 (https://www.sublimetext.com/3)
2. Go to the menu Tools -> Install Package Control, then, wait few seconds until the installation finishes up
3. Now, Go to the menu Preferences -> Package Control
4. Type Add Channel on the opened quick panel and press Enter
5. Then, input the following address and press Enter

   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evandrocoan/StudioChannel/master/channel.json
   

6. Go to the menu Tools -> Command Palette... (Ctrl+Shift+P)
7. Type Preferences: Package Control Settings – User on the opened quick panel and press Enter
8. Then, find the following setting on your Package Control.sublime-settings file:

   "channels":
   [
       "https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json",
       "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evandrocoan/StudioChannel/master/channel.json",
   ],

9. And, change it to the following, i.e., put the https://raw.githubusercontent... line as first:

   "channels":
   [
       "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evandrocoan/StudioChannel/master/channel.json",
       "https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json",
   ],

   • The https://raw.githubusercontent... line must to be added before the https://packagecontrol.io... one, otherwise, you will not install this forked version of the package, but the original available on the Package Control default channel https://packagecontrol.io...
10. Now, go to the menu Preferences -> Package Control
11. Type Install Package on the opened quick panel and press Enter
12. Then, search for PrettyJSON and press Enter

See also:

1. ITE - Integrated Toolset Environment
2. Package control docs for details.

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

Demo:

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:

http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

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

Thanks

• @the3rdhbtaylor https://github.com/the3rdhbtaylor
• @crcastle https://github.com/crcastle

Others

If you YAMLing then maybe you interested in this plugin: https://github.com/aukaost/SublimePrettyYAML