Replacing underscores in JSON using JQ

Question

I\'m working with the woocommerce API to retrieve and store information. Currently our setup is designed to use camel case instead of underscores. I\'m using jq

Answer 1

Here's a jq function that will convert "a_bcd_ef" to "aBcdEf", which seems to be what you want:

def camel:
  gsub( "_(?<a>[a-z])"; .a|ascii_upcase);

Example usage:

"a_bcd_ef" | camel

If you want a simple one-liner to process JSON strings from STDIN:

$ jq 'gsub( "_(?<a>[a-z])"; .a|ascii_upcase)'

If you only want the first occurrence of "_[a-z]" converted, then of course you'd use sub. And so on.

To apply this function to ALL keys in an object, you could write:

with_entries( .key |= camel )

To change ALL keys in ALL objects within a JSON entity, you could use walk/1:

walk(if type == "object" then with_entries(.key |= camel) else . end)

If your jq does not have walk/1 then you can simply include its definition (easily found by googling), either before it is invoked, or perhaps in your ~/.jq file.