json-shell test file

help-example.json

{
  "bools": [true, false],
  "ints": [42, 32768, -1],
  "floats": [3.141592654, 2.7182818285, -0.000001],
  "strs": ["a", "b", "foo", "bar"],
  "none": null,
  "dict": {
    "1": [".", "one", "One", "ONE"],
    "2": ["..", "two", "Two", "TWO"]
  }
}

test.json

{
  "level1": {
    "level2": [
      {
        "var1": "value1"
      },
      {
        "var2": "value2"
      },
      "value3",
      {
        "values": [
          {
            "var1": "Value1"
          },
          {
            "var2": "Value2"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

test.yml

level1:
  level2:
    - var1: value1
    - var2: value2
    - value3
    - values:
      - var1: Value1
      - var2: Value2

yaml-to-json.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

import sys
import json
import yaml

assert not sys.stdin.isatty(), 'You must redirect stdin'

json.dump(yaml.load(sys.stdin.read(), Loader=yaml.BaseLoader), fp=sys.stdout, indent=2)
print()