Support tabular formats: jsonlines, csv

[Chris Mungall]

It would be handy to have direct support for jsonl and CSV/TSV formats.

The easy workaround is:

jq -s '{ "items": . }' my.jsonl jinjanate my.j2 --format json

(assuming my jinja2 iterates through a key items)

or

jq -s . my.jsonl jinjanate my.j2 --format json --format-option array-name=items

Similarly, for CSV/TSV input tools like csvjson can easily do the processing up-front

So low priority but would be handy to avoid boilerplate preprocessing

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Definitely an interesting idea, and this sort of thing is the reason why plugin support was created :-)

If the preprocessing can be done by a Python package, then creating a plugin would be fairly easy to do.