We're building a website using the Pentaho CTools library, which has a graphical dashboard editor which writes out JSON-format files for part of the dashboard.
I'd like to apply a transform to these files before check-in to git in order to sort them by key and then by the value of certain keys. The purpose is to make diffs easier, since the editor has a habit of rearranging all of the json fields.
For example, we might have something like this:
{"components": {"rows": [ {"id": "CHARTS","name": "Charts","parent": "UnIqEiD","properties": [ {"name": "Group","type": "Label","value": "Charts" } ],"type": "Label","typeDesc": "<i>Group</i>" }, {"id": "kjalajsdjf","meta_cdwSupport": "true","parent": "CHARTS","properties": [ {"name": "name","type": "Id","value": "Value1" }, {"name": "title","type": "String","value": "Value2" }, {"name": "listeners","type": "Listeners","value": "[]" },...We are able to jq --sort-keys (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/) to sort all of the keys, but I'm struggling to find out how to use the sort_by function to then sort certain specific elements by the value of certain keys (so, in the example above, sorting by properties.name for example. Any ideas?