Add jsonpath.py script that can be used when installing this package

[hakanw]

This script is based on https://github.com/makefu/jsonpath but expanded to work well with batches of files, globbing etc.

It will be installed as a bin/ script, so pip installing this package also gives a useful tool for testing and doing stuff. This is really useful, and I had a hard time finding a working JSONpath script (there are so many outdated, or for old versions of perl and what not).

There are two modes: stdin input and file path input

Examples:

$ echo '{ "foobar": 1 }' | jsonpath.py foobar
1

$ jsonpath.py $..myelement *.json
lots of output
here
for every myelement
...

Please merge! :)

[kennknowles]

In the past I've used something like

    entry_points = {
        'console_scripts': ['jsonpath = jsonpath_rw.cli:entry_point']
    }

Two things I really like about that are:

1. You can test the function easily
2. The name of the script is independent

Is there any pitfall to this method? I know the packaging situation is confusing in Python so I could have got something wrong.

[kennknowles]

Overall, this is a great idea. I've dropped a few specific comments just on little improvements. Any of them that you would care to take on would be super. I can do the rest, but it will get done sooner if you do :-)

[kennknowles]

Didn't mean to leave this sitting here. Thanks!

[kennknowles]

I just noticed this. This makes it break when the files have special characters in their name. Globbing is the shell's job. Do you actually require this? Is this a Windows thing?

[kennknowles]

Ugh. Just discovered that, at least at the time of some SO answers, DOS/Windows shell does not glob.This behavior is a bug in the DOS/Windows shell. I'll leave this in until someone on a unixy OS reports a bug, at which point I'll be forced to fix this to not glob. It is just a rare corner case so who knows if it will ever come up.

[kennknowles]

This is available in the new 1.3.0 release on PyPi

[hakanw]

Sorry for taking so long to get back, I noticed just now you had already merged it. Otherwise I would have done the remaining work now.

Thanks!

[kennknowles]

No worries. Thanks for the contribution!