How to serialize json to sql? - json

Question

I have a list of words and I should send requests to an API and get the information about the words. I want to convert the API data which is in JSON format to SQL(my DB is PostgreSQL) format in Django. How can I do that? Do you know any good source to learn to serialize json to sql?
I have just started learning Django.
It is the API's JSON data:
[
{
"word": "hello",
"phonetics": [
{
"text": "/həˈloʊ/",
"audio": "https://lex-audio.useremarkable.com/mp3/hello_us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"text": "/hɛˈloʊ/",
"audio": "https://lex-audio.useremarkable.com/mp3/hello_us_2_rr.mp3"
}
],
"meanings": [
{
"partOfSpeech": "exclamation",
"definitions": [
{
"definition": "Used as a greeting or to begin a phone conversation.",
"example": "hello there, Katie!"
}
]
},
{
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"definitions": [
{
"definition": "An utterance of “hello”; a greeting.",
"example": "she was getting polite nods and hellos from people",
"synonyms": [
"greeting",
"welcome",
"salutation",
"saluting",
"hailing",
"address",
"hello",
"hallo"
]
}
]
},
{
"partOfSpeech": "intransitive verb",
"definitions": [
{
"definition": "Say or shout “hello”; greet someone.",
"example": "I pressed the phone button and helloed"
}
]
}
]
}
]
this is my models.py:
class Words(models.Model):
word = models.CharField(max_length=50)
american_phonetic= models.CharField(max_length=50)
american_audio= models.URLField(max_length = 200)
british_phonetic= models.CharField(max_length=50)
british_audio= models.URLField(max_length = 200)
###########################################################################
class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
birth_date = models.DateField('birth date')
field= models.CharField(max_length=50)
location = models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True)
interest= models.IntegerField() # for example : 1 for science , 2 for art , 3 for sport etc.
education= models.IntegerField() # for example : 1 for highschool , 2 for bachelor , 3 for master and 4 for phd
#receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
Profile.objects.create(user=instance)
#receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def save_user_profile(sender, instance, **kwargs):
instance.profile.save()
class UserLearned(models.Model):
Profile_id = models.ForeignKey(Profile, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
word_id = models.ForeignKey(Words, models.SET_NULL, blank=True, null=True,)
def __str__(self):
return self.word_id
############################################################################
class Meanings(models.Model):
word_id = models.ForeignKey(Words, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
partOfSpeech = models.CharField(max_length=30)
class Definitions(models.Model):
word_id = models.ForeignKey(Words, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Meaning_id = models.OneToOneField(Meanings, on_delete=models.CASCADE, primary_key=True)
definition = models.TextField()
def __str__(self):
return self.definition
class Examples(models.Model):
word_id = models.ForeignKey(Words, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Meaning_id = models.OneToOneField(Meanings, on_delete=models.CASCADE, primary_key=True)
example = models.TextField()
def __str__(self):
return self.example
class Synonyms(models.Model):
word_id = models.ForeignKey(Words, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Meaning_id = models.ForeignKey(Meanings, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
synonym = models.CharField(max_length=50)
def __str__(self):
return self.synonym

Answer 1

You can use the json library to serialise the json data and vice versa (use json.loads() & json.dumps() methods).
For Example:
import json
data = "{'name': 'Jack', 'age': 30}" #json data
python_dict = json.loads(data) #now it is a python dict
Now you can directly assign the values of the python dict to any model attributes in Django.
Following are some good sources to start learning the library:
https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_json.asp
https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html