Extract json value on regex on bash script - bash

Question

How can i get the values inner depends in bash script?
manifest.py
# Commented lines
{
'category': 'Sales/Subscription',
'depends': [
'sale_subscription',
'sale_timesheet',
],
'auto_install': True,
}
Expected response:
sale_subscription sale_timesheet
The major problem is linebreak, i have already tried | grep depends but i can not get the sale_timesheet value.
Im trying to add this values comming from files into a var, like:
DOWNLOADED_DEPS=($(ls -A $DOWNLOADED_APPS | while read -r file; do cat $DOWNLOADED_APPS/$file/__manifest__.py | [get depends value])
Example updated.

Answer 1

If this is your JSON file:
{
"category": "Sales/Subscription",
"depends": [
"sale_subscription",
"sale_timesheet"
],
"auto_install": true
}
You can get the desired result using jq like this:
jq -r '.depends | join(" ")' YOURFILE.json
This uses .depends to extract the value from the depends field, pipes it to join(" ") to join the array with a single space in between, and uses -r for raw (unquoted) output.

Answer 2

If it is not a json file and only string then you can use below Regex to find the values. If it's json file then you can use other methods like Thomas suggested.
^'depends':\s*(?:\[\s*)(.*?)(?:\])$
demo
you can use egrep for this as follows:
% egrep -M '^\'depends\':\s*(?:\[\s*)(.*?)(?:\])$' pathTo\jsonFile.txt
you can read about grep

Answer 3

As #Thomas has pointed out in a comment, the OPs input data is not in JSON format:
$ cat manifest.py
# Commented lines // comments not allowed in JSON
{
'category': 'Sales/Subscription', // single quotes should be replaced by double quotes
'depends': [
'sale_subscription',
'sale_timesheet', // trailing comma at end of section not allowed
],
'auto_install': True, // trailing comma issue; should be lower case "true"
}
And while the title of the question mentions regex, there is no sign of a regex in the question. I'll leave a regex based solution for someone else to come up with and instead ...
One (quite verbose) awk solution based on the input looking exactly like what's in the question:
$ awk -F"'" ' # use single quote as field separator
/depends/ { printme=1 ; next } # if we see the string "depends" then set printme=1
printme && /]/ { printme=0 ; next} # if printme=1 and line contains a right bracket then set printme=0
printme { printf pfx $2; pfx=" " } # if printme=1 then print a prefix + field #2;
# first time around pfx is undefined;
# subsequent passes will find pfx set to a space;
# since using "printf" with no "\n" in sight, all output will stay on a single line
END { print "" } # add a linefeed on the end of our output
' json.dat
This generates:
sale_subscription sale_timesheet