Gedit JSON, XML formatting plugin

Here’s how to add commands to Gedit to format JSON and XML documents.

1. Ensure that you have an up-to-date version of Python.  It’s included with nearly every Linux distribution.
2. Ensure that the External Tools plugin is installed
1. Click Edit -> Preferences
2. Select the Plugins tab
3. Check the box next to External Tools
4. Click Close
3. Add the Format JSON command
1. Click Tools -> Manage External Tools…
2. Click New (bottom left, looks like a piece of paper with a plus sign)
3. Enter a name (Format JSON)
4. Paste this text into the text window on the right

 code :

         

#! /usr/bin/env python
 
import json
import sys
 
j = json.load(sys.stdin)
print json.dumps(j, sort_keys=True, indent=2)

5. Set Input to Current document
6. Set Output to Replace current document

1. Add the Format XML command
1. Install lxml (on Ubuntu, sudo apt-get install python-lxml)
1. Python’s included XML modules either don’t support pretty printing or are buggy
2. Create a new external tool configuration as above (Format XML)
3. Paste this text into the text window on the right

#! /usr/bin/env python
 
import sys
import lxml.etree as etree
import traceback
 
result = ''
for line in sys.stdin:
  result += line
try:
  x = etree.fromstring(result)
  result = etree.tostring(x, pretty_print=True)
except:
  etype, evalue, etraceback = sys.exc_info()
  traceback.print_exception(etype, evalue, etraceback, file=sys.stderr)
print result

1. Set Input to Current document
2. Set Output to Replace current document

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