How to swap key and value of an object using jq?
In your particular case:
to_entries | map( {(.value) : .key } ) | add
More robustly:
to_entries | map( {(.value|tostring) : .key } ) | add
Or if you prefer:
with_entries( .key as $k | .key = (.value|tostring) | .value = $k )
Caveat: all these are potentially lossy.
If some keys have equal values then probably you would like to get an array of keys as value:
to_entries
| map( {(.value) : {(.key):null} } )
| reduce .[] as $item ({}; . * $item)
| to_entries
| map({key:.key, value:(.value|keys)})
| from_entries
input:
{
"key1": "val0",
"key2": "val1",
"key3": "val1"
}
output:
{
"val0": ["key1"],
"val1": ["key2", "key3"]
}