json-diff

Compares two JSON files (http://json.org) and generates a new JSON file with the result. Allows exclusion of some keys from the comparison, or in other way to include only some keys.

The project’s website is at https://gitlab.com/mcepl/json_diff Patches and pull requests are welcome, but please keep the script compatible with python 2.4.

Released under MIT/X11 license.

Changelog:

1.5.0 2019-08-25

• Port to Python 3 (most tests pass, one skipped)

1.4.3 2019-08-06

• Fix tests to work.

1.4.2 2019-08-06

• Allow running main() without formal arguments.

1.4.1 2018-07-21

• Fix tests

1.4.0 2018-07-21

• Generate proper script with entry_points.

1.3.7 2018-07-20

• New email address of the maintainer
• Skip failing test

1.3.5 2017-01-13

• Fedorahosted dies, everything (including submodules) moved to GitLab.com

1.3.4 2015-03-13

• Switch to setuptools
• Reorganization of repositories (fedorahosted)

1.3.3 2012-04-24

• Grrr, python 2.4 doesn't have context managers

1.3.2 2012-04-24

• Include mising test/init.py to the distribution to allow tests for packgaging.

1.3.1 2012-04-23

• Back to the past: previous version was not compatible with Python 2.4.

1.3.0 2012-04-23

• Added -o parameter for output to the specified file.

1.2.9 2012-02-13

• Give up on non-UTF-8 encoding for output.

1.2.7 2012-01-18

• Yet another (hopefully the last) fix of the development website. We are on fedorahosted.org now.

1.2.6 2012-01-18

• Move tests to test/ module
• Clean up setup.py (when using defaults, install doesn’t install tests, which I like)
• Add new setup.py command test to run the test suite.

1.2.5 2012-01-11

• Switch the project’s website and clean up UTF-8 metadata.

1.2.1 2011-12-03

• Change of the home URL to my trac.

1.2.0 2011-12-01

• One more python 2.4 compatibility fix. Maintainer of optparse library couldn't have a better idea than to change "usage:" to "Usage:" (between 2.4 and 2.6)! Grrrrrrr.

1.2.0 2011-12-01

• Fix locale.setlocale to work on RHEL 5.

1.2.0 2011-11-30

• Make tests working independently of the locale set on the system.

1.2.0 2011-11-30

• Set exit status of json_diff command. 0 means no difference 1 there is a difference.
• Now actually works correctly with non-mandatory options.

1.1.0 2011-11-29

• Make scripts pylint and PEP8 compliant.
• Add option -a to ignore appended keys (for comparing changing piglit tests).
• Fix formatted output to stdout (or file).
• Added test for -i functionality.

0.9.2 2011-11-21 Python 2.4 compatible

0.9.1 2011-11-21 Two small nits in main part.

(for detailed log of all changes see git log)