Diff for JSON data

README.md

jsondiff

Requires datadiff.

Also useful with yaml2json.

example

[:~] $ jsondiff <( echo '{"foo":"bar"}' ) <( echo '{"foo":"bar", "baz":"bap"}' )
--- a
+++ b
{
+u'baz': u'bap',
 u'foo': u'bar',
}

jsondiff

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

## https://pypi.python.org/pypi/datadiff
import datadiff
import json

def main(src_a, src_b, depth=9):
    with open(src_a) as ifp:
        obj_a = json.load(ifp)

    with open(src_b) as ifp:
        obj_b = json.load(ifp)

    if obj_a != obj_b:
        print datadiff.diff(obj_a, obj_b)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys

    main(*sys.argv[1:])