Select or exclude multiples object with an array of IDs - json

Question

I have the following JSON :
[
{
"id": "1",
"foo": "bar-a",
"hello": "world-a"
},
{
"id": "2",
"foo": "bar-b",
"hello": "world-b"
},
{
"id": "10",
"foo": "bar-c",
"hello": "world-c"
},
{
"id": "42",
"foo": "bar-d",
"hello": "world-d"
}
]
And I have the following array store in a variable: ["1", "2", "56", "1337"] (note the IDs are string, and may contain any regular character).
So, thanks to this SO, I found a way to filter my original data. jq 'jq '[.[] | select(.id == ("1", "2", "56", "1337"))]' ./data.json (note the array is surrounded by parentheses and not brackets) produces :
[
{
"id": "1",
"foo": "bar-a",
"hello": "world-a"
},
{
"id": "2",
"foo": "bar-b",
"hello": "world-b"
}
]
But I would also liked to do the opposite (basically excluding IDs instead of selecting them). Using select(.id != ("1", "2", "56", "1337")) doesn't work and using jq '[. - [.[] | select(.id == ("1", "2", "56", "1337"))]]' ./data.json seems very ugly and it doesn't work with my actual data (an output of aws ec2 describe-instances).
So have you any idea to do that? Thank you!

Answer 1

To include them, you need to verify that the id is any of the values in the keep set.
$ jq --argjson include '["1", "2", "56", "1337"]' 'map(select(.id == $include[]))' ...
To exclude them, you need to verify that all values are not in your excluded set. But it might just be easier to take the original set and remove the items that are in the excluded set.
$ jq --argjson exclude '["1", "2", "56", "1337"]' '. - map(select(.id == $exclude[]))' ...

Answer 2

Here is a solution that uses inside. Assuming you run jq as
jq -M --argjson IDS '["1","2","56","1337"]' -f filter.jq data.json
This filter.jq
map( select([.id] | inside($IDS)) )
produces the ids from data.json that are in the $IDS array:
[
{
"id": "1",
"foo": "bar-a",
"hello": "world-a"
},
{
"id": "2",
"foo": "bar-b",
"hello": "world-b"
}
]
and this filter.jq
map( select([.id] | inside($IDS) | not) )
produces the ids from data.json that are not in the $IDS array:
[
{
"id": "10",
"foo": "bar-c",
"hello": "world-c"
},
{
"id": "42",
"foo": "bar-d",
"hello": "world-d"
}
]