add command inside if in jq

[gianfabiopezzolla]

Hi there,

I have this following script:

sqtoken="myToken"
project_name=proj_name
sonar_search=`curl -u $sqtoken: http://my.sonar.it/api/projects/search?projects=$project_name`

echo $sonar_search | jq 'if (.components == []) then empty else .components end'

I need to add a curl -X POST http:// inside the first if in jq,
How can I do that?

Thanks a lot

[leonid-s-usov]

@nicowilliams this is your moment :)
@sagolab please see pr #1843 , it will add the possibility of running external process from within JQ

[gianfabiopezzolla]

@leonid-s-usov ok thanks a lot. So is not possible yet..

[nicowilliams]

Yeah, #1843 is the thing for this. Soon.

[emanuele6]

I don't understand the question.

Anyway you can easily run commands piping to sh.

Here is an example: (I don't think it's correct since .components would be an array, but I don't know how else to interpret the question.)

curl -fGu "$sqtoken:" --data-raw "projects=$project_name" \
    http://my.sonar.it/api/projects/search |
jq -r '
    .components |
    select(. != []) |
    @sh "curl -gfX POST http://\(.components)"' |
sh

Closing...