将 jq 输出分配给 bash 数组

Question

I have a problem to assign value to bash array correctly which was parsed by jq . I have a JSON output from curl :

{
  "id": 6442,
  "name": "Execute Workflow",
  "description": "Plan: data",
  "status": "In Queue",
  "start_date": 0,
  "end_date": 0,
  "job_type": "Execute Workflow",
  "created_by_name": null,
  "creation_date": 1580762385615,
  "creation_date_str": "02/03/2020 09:39:45 PM",
  "last_updated_date": 1580762385615,
  "last_updated_date_str": "02/03/2020 09:39:45 PM",
  "last_updated_by_name": null,
  "schedule_on": 0,
  "paused_at_step": 0,
  "percent_complete": 0,
  "job_action_type": null,
  "child_job_id": -1
}

I want to save two key values .id and .status into bash array.

I am doing it this way:

array=( $(echo '{ "id": 6442, "name": "Execute Workflow", "description": "Plan: data", "status": "In Queue", "start_date": 0, "end_date": 0, "job_type": "Execute Workflow", "created_by_name": null, "creation_date": 1580762385615, "creation_date_str": "02/03/2020 09:39:45 PM", "last_updated_date": 1580762385615, "last_updated_date_str": "02/03/2020 09:39:45 PM", "last_updated_by_name": null, "schedule_on": 0, "paused_at_step": 0, "percent_complete": 0, "job_action_type": null, "child_job_id": -1}' | jq '.id, .status') ) 

All seems OK until I try to get second element of that array: echo ${array[1]} and I get "In not "In Queue" .

My array is 3 elements long echo ${#array[@]} returns 3 but I want it to be 2 elements long. Can someone help me please?

My next steps in bash script is to assign job_status="=${array[1]}" and I want to get variable job_status="In Queue" .

Answer 1

yes, when you assign to an array, bash has to escape all its special characters and then split the arguments with the default separator, which is space. There's no matter of quoting of arguments or spaces per se in the source JSON that would help here.

Thus, to work-around that you'd need to set IFS to the delimiter which is unique enough for your JSON data - for the sake of the example, let it be comma (assuming your JSON is in curl.json for brevity):

bash $ ifs="$IFS"; IFS=','; array=($(<curl.json jq -r '[.id, .status] | @csv')); IFS="$ifs"
bash $ echo ${#array[@]}
2
bash $ echo ${array[1]}
"In Queue"
bash $