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| 1175744654 | I_kwDOCGYnMM5GFHCO | 417 | insert fails on JSONL with whitespace | 9954 | closed | 0 | 3 | 2022-03-21T17:58:14Z | 2022-03-25T21:19:06Z | 2022-03-25T21:17:13Z | NONE | Any JSON that is newline-delimited and has whitespace (newlines) between the start of a JSON object and an attribute fails due to a parse error. e.g. given the valid JSONL: ```{ "attribute": "value" } { "attribute": "value2" } ``` I would expect that `sqlite-utils insert --nl my.db mytable file.jsonl` would properly import the data into `mytable`. However, the following error is thrown instead: `json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 1 (char 2)` It makes sense that since the file is intended to be newline separated, the thing being parsed is "{" (which obviously fails), however the default newline-separated output of `jq` isn't compact. Using `jq -c` avoids this problem, but the fix is unintuitive and undocumented. Proposed solutions: 1. Default to a "loose" newline-separated parse; this could be implemented internally as [the equivalent of] a `jq -c` filter ahead of the insert step. 2. Catch the JSONDecodeError (or pre-empt it in the case of a record === "{\n") and give the user a "it looks like your json isn't _actually_ newline-delimited; try running it through `jq -c` instead" error message. It might just have been too early in the morning when I was playing with this, but running pipes of data through sqlite-utils without the 'knack' of it led to some false starts. | 140912432 | issue | {"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/417/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | completed |