Convert txt to json file - json

Question

I have a text file, need to convert that into JSON, please help
RULE_NAME{
RULE 1
SOURCE
DESTINAION
PORT
POROTCOL
RULE 2
SOURCE
DESTINAION
PORT
POROTCOL
RULE 3
....
}
Need json format to be like this
Local{
01
SOURCE : SAG
DESTINAION : any
PORT :02
POROTCOL: icmp
04
SOURCE : SAG
DESTINAION :any
PORT: any
POROTCOL : tcp
}
bk1-2-internal{
02
SOURCE : any
DESTINAION : SoftLY
PORT :any
POROTCOL: any
28
SOURCE : 119.111.126.115/18
DESTINAION :129.37.164.74/30
PORT: 112
POROTCOL : udpt
}
My text file looks like this:
>Local = 01 : SAG = any = 02 = tcp
>Local = 04 : SAG = any = any = tcp
>bk1-2-internal = 2 : any = SoftLY = any = any
>bk1-2-internal = 28 : 119.111.126.115/18 = 129.37.164.74/30 = 112 = udpt
Goes upto 200 more lines with same format
i tried the code below but does not get expected structure. please check and assist in getting expected output, please feel free to contact at your own space, need to close this by today, please help
#filename = '/home/AY.txt'
import json
# the file to be converted
filename = '/home/ay/txt'
# resultant dictionary
dict1 = {}
# fields in the sample file
fields =['name', 'source', 'destination', 'port' 'protocol']
with open(filename) as fh:
# count variable for employee id creation
l = 1
for line in fh:
# reading line by line from the text file
description = list( line.strip().split(None, 4))
# for output see below
print(description)
# for automatic creation of id for each employee
sno =' '+str(l)
# loop variable
i = 0
# intermediate dictionary
dict2 = {}
while i<len(fields):
# creating dictionary for each employee
dict2[fields[i]]= description[i]
i = i + 1
# appending the record of each employee to
# the main dictionary
dict1[sno]= dict2
l = l + 1
# creating json file
out_file = open("/home/task.json", "w")
json.dump(dict1, out_file, indent = 4)
out_file.close()

Answer 1

Code
import os
import json
def json_from_log(path):
'''
Convert log to json text file as follows
Steps:
Create dictionary from log file
Deserialize dictionary to json
Output file same name as input but with suffix of json
'''
outfile = os.path.splitext(path)[0] + '.json' # same as input but with json extension
with open(path, 'r') as fread, open(outfile, 'w') as outfile:
result = {}
for line in fread:
line = line.strip()
rule, address = line.split(':')
rule = rule[1:-1] # skip '>', and drop trailing space ata end of string
address = address.lstrip() # Drop leading space
rule_id, rule_number = rule.split(' = ')
source, destination, port, protocol = address.split(' = ')
port = int(port) if port.isnumeric() else port
# Add nested ditionaries if they don't exist for key
result.setdefault(rule_id, {})
result[rule_id].setdefault(rule_number, {})
# Place in dictionary
result[rule_id][rule_number].update({"SOURCE":source,
"DESTINAION": destination,
"PORT": port,
"PROTOCOL": protocol})
json.dump(result, outfile, indent = 1) # indent = 1 allows "pretty" output
Usage
json_from_log('test3.txt')
Input File: test3.txt
>Local = 01 : SAG = any = 02 = tcp
>Local = 04 : SAG = any = any = tcp
>bk1-2-internal = 2 : any = SoftLY = any = any
>bk1-2-internal = 28 : 119.111.126.115/18 = 129.37.164.74/30 = 112 = udpt
Output File: test3.json
{
"Local": {
"01": {
"SOURCE": "SAG",
"DESTINAION": "any",
"PORT": 2,
"PROTOCOL": "tcp"
},
"04": {
"SOURCE": "SAG",
"DESTINAION": "any",
"PORT": "any",
"PROTOCOL": "tcp"
}
},
"bk1-2-internal": {
"2": {
"SOURCE": "any",
"DESTINAION": "SoftLY",
"PORT": "any",
"PROTOCOL": "any"
},
"28": {
"SOURCE": "119.111.126.115/18",
"DESTINAION": "129.37.164.74/30",
"PORT": 112,
"PROTOCOL": "udpt"
}
}
}