importing a regular json file

[cueckoo]

Originally opened by @nrdxp in cuelang/cue#980

I'm trying use git revisions in a cue file that are specified in an automatically generated json lock file. Ideally, I'd like to import the json file and reference the revisions from there. How could I accomplish this?

[cueckoo]

Original reply by @mpvl in cuelang/cue#980 (comment)

Aside from using cue cmd, there is currently no way to import JSON files.

We're considering allowing either a direct import import file1 "path/to/file.json" or using some @embed() mechanism. The latter seems more suitable to also allow globs at some point.