Reading the Json string which is put together in one field - json

Question

I have a Json pattern string in a text file, I have to pharse the below string like below and put it in to a external file.
Please let me know how this can be handled with Informatica Powercenter or Unix or Python?
{"CONTACTID":"3b2a25b2","ANI":"[phone]","DNIS":"[phone]","START_TIME":"01/22/2023 03:31:42","MODULE":[{"Name":"MainIVR","Time":"01/22/2023 03:31:42",Dialog":[{"name":"offer_Spanish","dialogeresult":"(|raw:7|R|7|1.0|nm=0|ni=0|2023/22/21 03:02:01)"}],"backend":[{"Time":"01/22/2023)"}],"END_STATE":"XC"}
In The above sample string the special charcters should be removed and the values should be assigned to the corresponding columns like below 2 o/p formats
Output:
CONTACTID, ANI, DNIS, START_TIME, MODULE, Time,Dialog,dialogeresult,END_STATE
3b2a25b2,[phone] [phone]/22/2023 03:31:42,Name:MainIVR,
or
Output:
CONTACTID : 3b2a25b2
ANI:16146748702
DNI :[phone]
I tried this to read thru Informatica powercenter and using the expression tranformations but nothing worked and tried with Python too.

Answer 1

For a start, your JSON is invalid. The opening double quotes for Dialog are missing and it's not properly closed - MODULE array is not closed and root is not closed. Here's the fixed JSON:
{"CONTACTID":"3b2a25b2","ANI":"[phone]","DNIS":"[phone]","START_TIME":"01/22/2023 03:31:42","MODULE":[{"Name":"MainIVR","Time":"01/22/2023 03:31:42","Dialog":[{"name":"offer_Spanish","dialogeresult":"(|raw:7|R|7|1.0|nm=0|ni=0|2023/22/21 03:02:01)"}],"backend":[{"Time":"01/22/2023)"}],"END_STATE":"XC"}]}
Use some JSON validation tool, like this one - it helps a lot.
Next, here's some starter code you may use to achieve the required result:
import json
# some JSON:
x = '{"CONTACTID":"3b2a25b2","ANI":"[phone]","DNIS":"[phone]","START_TIME":"01/22/2023 03:31:42","MODULE":[{"Name":"MainIVR","Time":"01/22/2023 03:31:42","Dialog":[{"name":"offer_Spanish","dialogeresult":"(|raw:7|R|7|1.0|nm=0|ni=0|2023/22/21 03:02:01)"}],"backend":[{"Time":"01/22/2023)"}],"END_STATE":"XC"}]}'
# parse x:
y = json.loads(x)
# the result is a Python dictionary:
print(y.keys())
You may test it on Replit
Finally regarding Informatica Powercenter - it is a terrible choice for complex string processing. You would need a Hierarchy Parser Transformation. Long story short: it's very tedious, but possible. I would highly recommend picking up a differen approach, if this is not a regular data loading process you will need to build.