Using jq with an unknown amount of arguments from shell script?-CodePudding

I'm about to lose my mind working with jq for the first time today. I've tried every ever so dirty way to make this work somehow. Let's get down to business:

I'm trying to further develop the pretty barebones API for Unifi Controllers for some use cases:

There is error in the json (red highlighted commas)(that commas are not needed)

$
$ cat j.json | jq -r '.data[] | "\(.name)█\(.mac)█\(.ip)█\(._id)"'
Test-Accesspoint█ff:ec:ff:89:ff:58█10.19.31.120█61a0da77f730e404af0edc3c
$ cat j.json
{
  "meta": {
    "rc": "ok"
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "_id": "61a0da77f730e404af0edc3c",
      "ip": "10.19.31.120",
      "mac": "ff:ec:ff:89:ff:58",
      "name": "Test-Accesspoint"
    }
  ]
}
$

If the api have given this json you should probably edit it, before piping it into jq [maybe with sed or something like it]