Convert string to json in jq

Question

Background

I have a json file that contains a string of json within an object:

{
    \"requestType\": \"POST\",
    \"response\": {
        \"size\": 7         


        

Answer 1

Use fromjson.

It parses a string to its appropriate json value. tojson (and @json) goes the other way around and takes a json value and converts it to a string.

So you could do this:

.response.text | fromjson.title

Answer 2

You can also do this:

jq -r '.response.text' | jq '.recordID'