How to delete a Json object in BASH - json

Question

I have a couple of Json objects and I need to delete one of them if this Json contains specific information. For an example I need to delete if state of the Json object is RUNNING.
INPUT
projects {
key: "ads_evenflow.opt"
value {
name: "ads_evenflow.opt"
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}
projects {
key: "alexandria.opt"
value {
name: "alexandria.opt"
state: RUNNING
result: PASSED
}
}
projects {
key: "android.opt"
value {
name: "android.opt"
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}
OUTPUT
projects {
key: "ads_evenflow.opt"
value {
name: "ads_evenflow.opt"
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}
projects {
key: "android.opt"
value {
name: "androids.opt"
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}

Answer 1

Your structure isn't an valid JSON. For such structures you need some more relaxed parser. Fortunately, the JSONY perl module could parse it. From the doc:
JSONY is a data language that is simlar to JSON, just more chill. All
valid JSON is also valid JSONY (and represents the same thing when
loaded), but JSONY lets you omit a lot of the syntax that makes JSON a
pain to write.
The following perl code does what you want.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use 5.014;
use warnings;
use JSONY;
my $string = slurp_file();
my $data = JSONY->new->load( $string );
for my $proj (#{$data}) {
next unless ref($proj);
next if $proj->{value}->{state} eq 'RUNNING';
pretty_print_proj($proj);
}
sub pretty_print_proj {
my $p = shift;
say "project {";
say qq{\tkey: "$p->{key}"};
say "\tvalue {";
say "\t\t$_: ", $p->{value}->{$_} for (qw(name state result));
say "\t}";
say "}";
}
sub slurp_file {
#change this for your real case...
return do { local $/; <DATA>};
}
__DATA__
projects {
key: "ads_evenflow.opt"
value {
name: "ads_evenflow.opt"
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}
projects {
key: "alexandria.opt"
value {
name: "alexandria.opt"
state: RUNNING
result: PASSED
}
}
projects {
key: "android.opt"
value {
name: "android.opt"
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}
prints:
project {
key: "ads_evenflow.opt"
value {
name: ads_evenflow.opt
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}
project {
key: "android.opt"
value {
name: android.opt
state: COMPLETE
result: PASSED
}
}