Replacing an object's value with new object about dasel HOT 6 CLOSED

I have created a feature request for this problem: #67

For a more specific example in this use-case I would expect something like this:

echo 'foo: true
bar: 5
baz:
  qux: false
  quux: "yes"
  quuz: 7' | dasel put document -d json '.baz' $(echo '[
 {
 "qux": false,
 "quux": "no",
 "quuz": 8
 }
]' | dasel -p json '.[0]')

Sudo code explanation with placeholders

JSON_ARRAY =

[
 {
 "qux": false,
 "quux": "no",
 "quuz": 8
 }
]

YAML_CONTENT =

foo: true
bar: 5
baz:
  qux: false
  quux: "yes"
  quuz: 7

The JSON_ARRAY isn't actually what we want to use, so we extract the first item from the array.

JSON_DOCUMENT = echo JSON_ARRAY | dasel -p json '.[0]'

{
  "qux": false,
  "quux": "no",
  "quuz": 8
}

Finally we put the extracted json document into the yaml content using the baz property.

echo YAML_CONTENT | dasel put document -d json '.baz' JSON_DOCUMENT

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@Dentrax This is now supported as of v1.10.0.

Command:

echo 'foo: true
bar: 5
baz:
  qux: false
  quux: "yes"
  quuz: 7' | dasel put document -p yaml -d json '.baz' "$(echo '[
 {
 "qux": false,
 "quux": "no",
 "quuz": 8
 }
]' | dasel -p json '.[0]')"

Output:

bar: 5
baz:
  quux: "no"
  quuz: 8
  qux: false
foo: true

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You are so fast! Thanks for such a great job. 🔥

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Hey @Dentrax,

Thanks for your question.

The docs on replacing objects can be found here: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel#put-object

It doesn't look like dasel can do what you need yet though - you need to define the object property by property.

I think a new put document command could help out here.

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Additionally the docs on converting between different data formats are here: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel#converting-between-formats

I will soon create a new feature request issue for a put document command that should solve your issue.

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Thanks for documentations and prompt response! I guess I missed that parts. :) This will be great feature. I will look forward to it.

What I am concerning about is how to use put document in cross formats. i.e.:

YAML

foo: true
bar: 5
baz:
  qux: false
  quux: "yes"
  quuz: 7

JSON

[
 {
 "qux": false,
 "quux": "no",
 "quuz": 8
 }
]

As we all know, this JSON is in list of objects format. If we want to put document any JSON object (i.e. first array item) to YAML's baz, what command should we execute in this scenario?

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