grson -- greppable JSON dumper

grson

#!/usr/bin/python3

import json
import sys

fmt = '{key} = {value}'

def dump_obj(prefix, obj):
    if isinstance(obj, dict):
        for k, v in obj.items():
            if prefix:
                k = prefix + '.' + k

            dump_obj(k, v)

    elif isinstance(obj, list):
        for i, v in enumerate(obj):
            if prefix:
                k = "{prefix}[{idx}]".format(prefix=prefix, idx=i)
            dump_obj(k, v)

    else:
        print(fmt.format(key=prefix, value=json.dumps(obj)))

obj = json.loads(sys.stdin.read())
dump_obj('this', obj)