# Installer json2hcl avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de json2hcl pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:json2hcl
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install json2hcl
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#json2hcl
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/json2hcl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:json2hcl
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Résumé source:** Convert JSON to HCL, and vice versa
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/kvz/json2hcl>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/kvz/json2hcl>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-26T04:08:08+02:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- json2hcl (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.2.0
## Historique du projet et usages

json2hcl is a small Go command-line converter for moving data between JSON and HashiCorp Configuration Language. Its niche is the Terraform-era need to translate machine-friendly JSON into a more readable HCL form without building a larger configuration system.

### Historique du projet

Kevin van Zonneveld published json2hcl in September 2016 around a workflow for an internal tool named Frey. The README says the authors wanted to store infrastructure recipes as HCL after converting from machine-readable JSON, YAML, or TOML, and it explicitly notes that the tool used existing HashiCorp libraries rather than inventing a parser.

The project soon added reverse conversion with the `-reverse` flag, exposing hcl2json behavior through the same executable. By June 25, 2025, the GitHub repository was archived; its README states that the original author no longer used it, while leaving the code available for forks.

### Historique d'adoption

Adoption appears to have been modest but durable in package-manager terms: the tool was packaged by Homebrew and Nix, and the repository accumulated hundreds of stars and forks before archival. Its presence in Homebrew reflects the small-CLI pattern where a narrow converter remains useful even after upstream development slows.

### Modes d'utilisation

The canonical usage is Unix-pipeline oriented: feed JSON on standard input and receive HCL on standard output, or pass `-reverse` to convert HCL back to JSON. The README examples focus on Terraform-like `.tf.json` input and redirection to `.tf` files.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

json2hcl is interesting because it captures a short period when HCL was becoming a preferred human-edited configuration language around HashiCorp tools, while JSON remained the common interchange format. For package collectors, it is a tiny bridge utility whose package-manager value is convenience rather than ecosystem size.

### Chronologie

- 2016-09-05: The GitHub repository was created.
- 2016-09-05: v0.0.4 changelog entry covered error handling and release cross-compilation.
- 2016-09-06: v0.0.5 added reverse HCL-to-JSON conversion through `-reverse`.
- 2024-09-05: GitHub listed v0.2.0 among repository releases.
- 2025-06-25: The repository was archived by its owner.

### Related projects

- json2hcl is directly tied to HashiCorp HCL and Terraform-style JSON configuration. It also sits near other one-purpose data converters such as hcl2json, JSON-to-YAML tools, and Unix filters used in infrastructure repositories.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/kvz/json2hcl>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/json2hcl>
- <https://github.com/kvz/json2hcl>
- <https://github.com/kvz/json2hcl/releases>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - json2hcl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/json2hcl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/json2hcl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/json2hcl.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph