Is there a VIM plugin available to add JSONPath / jq / JMESPath path searching?

Question

I have a large JSON file that I am largely familiar with, but I have to jump around the file in VIM quite a bit and tweak options and such.

I was wondering if there is a VIM plugin available that allows me to specify a JSONPath / jq / JMESPath path on the search command line to easily jump to a specific key/value object in the file?

I found a comparable plugin for xpath in XML files: https://github.com/actionshrimp/vim-xpath , but the JSON-based plugins I have found only deal with syntax highlighting, linting, pretty-printing/formatting, etc.

Ideally, I'd like to just be able to use JSON Path notation (or the like) to easily jump to the spot in my JSON file I need to read/modify/etc.

Answer 1

I recently wrote a plugin for this called vim-jsonpath. It currently provides the following (mappable) commands:

• :JsonPath: Echoes the path to the identifier under the cursor.
• :JsonPath path.to.prop: Searches the active buffer for the given path, placing the cursor on it if found.

Answer 2

As an alternative you can use something like gron or jsonpipe to create paths next to the content.

An example of what gron output would look like:

json[0].commit.author = {};
json[0].commit.author.date = "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z";
json[0].commit.author.email = "mail@tomnomnom.com";
json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson";

You can do your searching and editing then undo this via %!gron --ungron.