Encrypt only a specific key in json file

[s-horbach]

Hello 👋

Is it possible to encrypt only a specific key within json file?

For instance: how to encrypt a's secret, which has "A value" value without touching "B value"?

"a": {
  "secret": "A value"
}
"b": {
  "secret": "B value"
}

PS i tried to use --encrypted-regex, but that didn't help 😞

I'd appreciate any help 🙏

[felixfontein]

That's not possible. In YAML you could use comments to determine what exactly to encrypt, but that obviously won't work with JSON. What you could do is use YAML instead, and on decrypt set the output type to JSON to get the extracted file as JSON. Whether that's viable depends on your workflow.

[s-horbach]

Got it. Thanks for your help.