Read unquoted value as string - jq

Question

I have an out from a tool, which is almost json.
{"acquired": None,
"avail": True,
"cls": "NetworkService",
"params": {"address": "192.168.7.193", "password": "root", "username": "root"}}
The problem is None and True, is there a possible way to tell jq to threat these as strings?
I could preprocess with sed, but it would break if suddenly a third value appeared.

Answer 1

I don't think jq can help you.
But with yq you can transform the input if you parse it as YAML and convert it to JSON:
yq --input-format yaml --output-format json file.json
Output
{
"acquired": "None",
"avail": true,
"cls": "NetworkService",
"params": {
"address": "192.168.7.193",
"password": "root",
"username": "root"
}
}

Answer 2

For the sake of completeness, the other implementation, kislyuk/yq, which uses jq directly, can also read and convert your input in the same way:
yq . file.json
{
"acquired": "None",
"avail": true,
"cls": "NetworkService",
"params": {
"address": "192.168.7.193",
"password": "root",
"username": "root"
}
}