Thanks for the suggestions, I am now using a shell script to preprocess the
file like this:
jsmin <$1 | jq '{_generated:"this file was generated, please edit the
source file \"'$1'\" instead"}+.' >`basename $1 .json`_nocomments.json
that works quite well.
On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 10:43:09 PM UTC+2, Gabo Kete wrote:
>
> Hi Alexander
>
> I hope I have understood correctly your question... I do have in my JSON
> files one line of comments right before I start the definition of my
> variables.. this is the way I have added them
>
> {
> *"_comment": "This si a centos7-x64 Machine for VmWare ESXi 6.0", <===
> My comments*
> "variables": {
> "nameVm": "centos-7.1-vmware_DevOPS",
> "ks_file": "simple-ks-integrado-CIS-BitbyBit.ks",
> "ks_server": "192.168.1.150",
> "ks_path": "centos7.1511_x64/ks/",
> "vmware_host": "192.168.1.250",
> "http_dir": "/packer"
> }
>
> Basically is to add the "_comment" style element in the JSON file at the
> very beginning. I do use this to describe what the is the purpose of the
> whole JSON file
>
> The other way I have found myself using comments and not affect the JSON
> file, is using JSMIN <http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html>
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> On Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 12:21:25 AM UTC+12, Alexander Lehmann wrote:
>>
>> As Packer is using json for the config, I would like to run a
>> preprocessor before running packer to strip Javascript comments from the
>> json file.
>>
>> I have found a nodejs tool for that called strip-json-comments-cli which
>> works ok, but since that requires npm install, it seems like kind of
>> complicated to provision e.g. in a CI environment just for the single
>> script.
>>
>> On the other hand I could add the stripped file in the git repo so that
>> as long as there are no changes in the source file, the tool is not needed
>> (which would solve the CI question).
>>
>> Can anyone suggest other tools (e.g. in go) or are you using another
>> procedure to get comment support for the config file?
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Alexander
>>
>>
>>
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