scripts/autojson.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
# all arguments to this script are considered as json files
# and attempted to be formatted alphabetically

import json
from sys import argv

for file in argv[1:]:
    print("formatting file {}".format(file))
    with open(file) as f:
        j = json.load(f)

    if isinstance(j, list):
        for item in j:
            item["Exposes"] = sorted(item["Exposes"], key=lambda k: k["Type"])
    else:
        j["Exposes"] = sorted(j["Exposes"], key=lambda k: k["Type"])

    with open(file, 'w') as f:
        f.write(json.dumps(j, indent=4, sort_keys=True, separators=(',', ': ')))