grunt-json-merge

Grunt plugin to merge JSON files handling override of keys

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-json-merge --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-json-merge');

The "json_merge" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named json_merge to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    options: {
      replacer: null,
      space: " "
    },
    your_target: {
      files: { 'dest/merged.json': ['src/a.json','src/b.json'] },
    },
  },
});

Options

options.replacer

Type: Function or Array Default value: null

Replacer option for JSON.stringify as specified in documentation

options.space

Type: String Default value: \t

Spacer string for JSON.stringify as specified in documentation

Usage Examples

##General Json files will be merged and colliding keys will be overwrite from latest to first file defined in src parameter. So in this case:

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    files: { 'dest/merged.json': ['src/a.json','src/b.json'] },
  },
});

Properties in file b will overwrite properties in file a. For further information read documentation of underscoreDeepExtend which is internally used to merge properties

Default Options

Merge all files .json in a direcotry to create a merged file specified as destination

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    options: {},
    files: {
      'dest/merged.json': ['src/*.json'],
    },
  },
});

Custom Options

Merge all files .json in a direcotry to create a merged file specified as destination. In this case we use custom spaces which are four spaes as you can see in options

grunt.initConfig({
  json_merge: {
    options: {
      space: '    '
    },
    files: {
      'dest/merged.json': ['src/*.json'],
    },
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

0.2.2

• Readme improvements 0.2.0
• Powerful merge 0.1.0
• Base functionalities