Use raw scalar output for --jq to match gh --jq behavior

Author: ilyazub

src/main.rs

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
                 Some(expr) => {
                     let results = jq::apply(expr, &value)?;
                     for v in &results {
-                        output::print_json(v, json_mode).map_err(|e| {
+                        output::print_jq_value(v).map_err(|e| {
                             let err = error::CliError::ApiError {
                                 message: format!("Output error: {}", e),
                             };

src/output.rs

@@ -9,3 +9,17 @@ pub fn print_json(value: &Value, json_mode: bool) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::err
     }
     Ok(())
 }
+
+/// Print a jq result value with raw scalar output (like gh --jq / jq -r).
+/// Strings are printed unquoted, numbers as plain text, booleans as true/false,
+/// null as empty string. Objects and arrays are JSON-encoded.
+pub fn print_jq_value(value: &Value) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    match value {
+        Value::String(s) => println!("{}", s),
+        Value::Number(n) => println!("{}", n),
+        Value::Bool(b) => println!("{}", b),
+        Value::Null => println!(),
+        _ => println!("{}", serde_json::to_string_pretty(value)?),
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}

tests/integration_tests.rs

@@ -223,6 +223,67 @@ mod output_tests {
     }
 }
 
+
+mod print_jq_value_tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use serpapi_cli::output::print_jq_value;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_string() {
+        let val = json!("hello world");
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_number_integer() {
+        let val = json!(42);
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_number_float() {
+        let val = json!(3.14);
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_bool_true() {
+        let val = json!(true);
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_bool_false() {
+        let val = json!(false);
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_null() {
+        let val = json!(null);
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_object() {
+        let val = json!({"key": "value"});
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_print_jq_value_array() {
+        let val = json!([1, 2, 3]);
+        let result = print_jq_value(&val);
+        assert!(result.is_ok());
+    }
+}
 mod jq_tests {
     use super::*;
     use serpapi_cli::jq;