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Query: Assign jq output to bash array

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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".

A:

basically, the question is not about JSON convertsion, but rather about bash array parsing. To ensure that JSON strings containing spaces will be setup in the array properly, the bash delimeter IFS needs to be set to the unique value:

bash $ ifs="$IFS"             # preserve IFS
bash $ IFS='|'                # | will be used as a unique separator

bash $ array=($(<curl.json jtc -qqT'"{$g}|\"{$r}\""'))
bash $ echo ${#array[@]}
2
bash $ echo ${array[1]}
"In Queue"
bash $ 
bash $ IFS="$ifs"             # let's not forget to restore IFS