clang-format a json file

Question

I have a json file. If I run clang-format on it, it formats it as though it's code (ugly).

{
  "name" : "My great app",
           "description" : "It's really cool.",
                           "version" : "0.0.1"
}

If I put 'foo = ' at the start of the file, it's great, but it's not json anymore.

foo = {
  "name" : "My great app",
  "description" : "It's really cool.",
  "version" : "0.0.1"
}

How can I get clang-format to format the bare object in the json file as in the second example?

Answer 1

Another program that I like to use is jq. It's pretty easy to use, and the documentation is great. For example, for simple reformatting you can do this:

jq . test.json