drivel

https://github.com/hgrsd/drivel

drivel is a command-line tool written in Rust for inferring a schema from an example JSON (or JSON lines) file, and generating synthetic data (the drivel in question) based on the inferred schema.

Very cool.

In 'describe' mode, drivel infers the schema from the input JSON and prints a human-readable description of the schema. This mode is useful for understanding the structure and data types present in JSON data.

Related: jless, gron, jnv

Consider a JSON file input.json:

{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "id": "0e3a99a5-0201-4444-9ab1-8343fac56233",
  "age": 30,
  "is_student": false,
  "grades": [85, 90, 78],
  "address": {
    "city": "New York",
    "zip_code": "10001"
  }
}

cat input.json | drivel describe

{
  "age": int (30),
  "address": {
    "city": string (8),
    "zip_code": string (5)
  },
  "is_student": boolean,
  "grades": [
    int (78-90)
  ] (3),
  "name": string (8),
  "id": string (uuid)
}

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