Question: Insert a new property key at a certain position

[cweiske]

I'm trying to add a new object property at a certain position and not at the end.

I know the property position inside an object is not relevant in JSON, but I want to have my keys sorted alphabetically:

{
  "package": com.DefiantDev.SkiSafari",
  "images": {
    "companion-app": "http://gamestick.cweiske.de/archive/gamestick_com.DefiantDev.SkiSafari/companion-app.png"
    "logo-1": "http://gamestick.cweiske.de/archive/gamestick_com.DefiantDev.SkiSafari/logo-1.png",
    "logo-2": "http://gamestick.cweiske.de/archive/gamestick_com.DefiantDev.SkiSafari/logo-2.png",
  }
}

The companion-app is new, and I'd like to have it added at the beginning of the images object.

What can I do to add a new JSON property at the beginning of an object?

What I tried

This patch adds it at the end of the property list:

{
    "images": {
        "companion-app {render}": "http://gamestick.cweiske.de/archive/gamestick_{{ _get('.package') }}/companion-app.png"
    }
}

Assigning positions is not allowed because it isn't a list:

{
    "images {extend@1}": {
        "companion-app {render}": "http://gamestick.cweiske.de/archive/gamestick_{{ _get('.package') }}/companion-app.png"
    }
}

ERROR .images {extend@1}: Cannot execute operation "extend" with value dictionary with keys [companion-app {render}]. This operation requires a value of type list

[pacha]

I can't really control the position of the keys inside a dictionary since that's not supported by any of the serialization libraries that the project uses (the ones for YAML, JSON and TOML). However, I added a --sort-keys flag that can be useful, since it sorts the keys alphabetically, which I understand that it is what you wanted to do in any case.

Hope that it helps. It is in the same version with the fixes of the other issues (0.4.1 ).

Regards!

[cweiske]

Thanks for the try, but it does not help me.
The root level of my GameStick game data files have no key sorting; they are in the order of importance (id, game title and android package name first).
Some of the deeper level objects are sorted alphabetically, since they all are equally important - like images.

Using --sort-keys sorts all objects and depth levels, which does not help me.

I understand that this is too complex when there is no support in the libraries.

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In PHP I would create new objects from the old ones, inserting the new information at the desired position.