I tried to install via MELPA. I didn't previously have counsel installed, and it failed to install it. It seems to depend on the ivy package, but on the swiper file which is (presumably) in the swiper package which was not installed automatically.

On the other hand, the swiper package depends on ivy, so it seems that this should depend on swiper instead. And perhaps the counsel package as well (or maybe the name is wrong)?

Compiling file /Users/iandrus/.emacs.d/elpa/counsel-jq-20191202.846/counsel-jq.el at Mon Dec  2 14:09:55 2019
Entering directory ‘/Users/iandrus/.emacs.d/elpa/counsel-jq-20191202.846/’
counsel-jq.el:12:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, swiper

When I use jq over the cli, querying for keys like this works fine:

code-dev/api » jq 'keys' test.json
[
  "has_more",
  "items",
  "quota_max",
  "quota_remaining"
]

When I try to do the same thing with counsel-jq (query for 'keys') on the same file, I get the following error:
jq: error: syntax error, unexpected INVALID_CHARACTER, expecting $end (Unix shell quoting issues?)

Environment is doom emacs, anyone encounter the same issue yet?

Hi,

I've found that counsel-jq when invoked doesn't always use the buffer it was invoked from when evaluating it's queries. I've noticed in a number of cases it instead using a different buffer from the one it was invoked from.

The specific use case that fails for me in doom-emacs is to open a new empty buffer (evil-buffer-new), paste in a json block, then execute counsel-jq. In this scenario counsel-jq will never use the newly created buffer, but instead whichever buffer was selected prior.

I'm not positive, but I believe this is likely the result of using workspace features (such as persp-mode) to curate and separate buffers into specific workspaces. In the case of more transient buffers, it seems that the buffer-list and other-buffer aren't always reliable to always get the last selected buffer.

ivy-occur can be used to get the filtered results in a separate buffer.
It is similar to the default action which opens up the result in *jq-json* buffer but instead uses an occur buffer.

This can help in filtering multiple json objects and compare the filtered results without having subsequent runs replace the results of previous ones.

Running ivy-occur (C-c C-o by default I think) opens up the full json object instead of only displaying the filtered results.

I'm unsure of what might be causing this or if this is a bug upstream in ivy.

Hi counsel-jq developers,

thanks very much for an amazing tool! I used to use jq-interactively [1] for this kind of work, but your mode appears to be much faster! I have one question though: is there a way to default the *jq-json* results buffer to JSON?

Many thanks

[1] https://github.com/ljos/jq-mode

windows 10, emacs 26.3

just installed jq (from chocolatey) and counsel-jq

When in json buffer, M-x counsel-jq, immediately get following:

Error in post-command-hook (icomplete-post-command-hook): (wrong-number-of-arguments (1 . 1) 3)
Quit

Then get prompt for jq query.