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How to "pretty" format JSON output in Ruby on Rails
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Closed 3 years ago.
I've run into a situation where I'm retrieving a json string in ruby, but I'm attempting to write it to a file structured like your usual json file (for example:
{
"top":{
"mid1":"bot1",
"mid2":"bot2"
}
}
However, the way the json string is structured is like so:
{"top":{"mid1":"bot1","mid2":"bot2"}}
I've seen other posts mention doing JSON.parse in order to get what I want, however that just causes it to look like this:
{"top"=>{"mid1"=>"bot1", "mid2"=>"bot2"}}
Is there a way that I can just convert the json string into what it looks like in the first code block above?
The first representation is JSON. The decoded version is Ruby's internal representation. If you want to go back to JSON, JSON.dump(...) will reconvert it.
Keep in mind this is just presentation. The data is the same.
You may be interested in the pp method as that produces nice, structured debugging output.
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We receive a JSON object from network along with a hash value of the object. In order to verify the hash we need to turn that JSON into a string and then make a hash out of it while preserving the order of the elements in the way they are in the JSON.
Say we have:
[
{"site1":
{"url":"https://this.is.site.com/",
"logoutURL":"",
"loadStart":[],
"loadStop":[{"someMore":"smthelse"}],
"there's_more": ... }
},
{"site2":
....
}
]
The Android app is able to get same hash value, and while debugging it we fed same simple string into both algorithms and were able to get out same hash out of it.
The difference that is there happens because of the fact that dictionaries are unordered structure.
While debugging we see that just before feeding a string into a hash algorithm, the string looks like the original JSON, just without the indentations, which means it preserves the order of items in it (on Android that is):
[{"site1":{"url":"https://this.is.site.com/", ...
While doing this with many approaches by now I'm not able to achieve the same: string that I get is different in order and therefore results in a different hash. Is there a way to achieve this?
UPDATE
It appears the problem is slightly different - thanks to #Rob Napier's answer below: I need a hash of only a part of incoming string (that has JSON in it), which means for getting that part I need to first parse it into JSON or struct, and after that - while getting the string value of it - the order of items is lost.
Using JSONSerialization and JSONDecoder (which uses JSONSerialization), it's not possible to reproduce the input data. But this isn't needed. What you're receiving is a string in the first place (as an NSData). Just don't get rid of it. You can parse the data into JSON without throwing away the data.
It is possible to create JSON parsers from scratch in Swift that maintain round-trip support (I have a sketch of such a thing at RNJSON). JSON isn't really that hard to parse. But what you're describing is a hash of "the thing you received." Not a hash of "the re-serialized JSON."
I received a one digit as string format, for example, which look like 12.
What I want to do is to convert those strings into a json format and
write them to the text file in my local directory.
However, I didn't get the right solution except for those things that manually change the strings so that it looks like the json format. I think it is tedious and laborious tasks.
The completed json format will be shown as below.
{"temperature": 12}
Is there any libraries that achieve my issue?
Thanks.
Check out Gson. In particular, if you have a Java class with a single "temperature" field, then see this for how to convert to Json.
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Golang parse JSON array into data structure
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Closed 5 years ago.
Currently I have stored in my database json objects as string. I want to pass them to a map to be able to consult any field as:
Mymap["Name"]
Mymap["Age"]
..
Let's say that my string would be something like:
'{"Name":["zero"],"Age":"10"}'
I don't know the structure of the data, so that Json can have many fields as required and also many levels of nestings (but I am worried more about to get at least the first level)
If you're dealing with a json object of arbitrary structure you can use a map of interfaces as the type to unmarshal it into.
map[string]interface{}
The encoding/json package will nicely unmarshal the json object into it, nested or not.
This, while very flexible, has an obvious downside, the types of the map's values are unknown and so to do anything useful with them you'll have to use a type assertion or type switch.
v, ok := m["key"].(Type)
https://play.golang.org/p/wM0gkU1g5G
I'm working on some Python code for my local billiard hall and I'm running into problems with JSON encoding. When I dump my data into a file I obviously get all the data in a single line. However, I want my data to be dumped into the file following the format that I want. For example (Had to do picture to get point across),
My custom JSON format
. I've looked up questions on custom JSONEncoders but it seems they all have to do with datatypes that aren't JSON serializable. I never found a solution for my specific need which is having everything laid out in the manner that I want. Basically, I want all of the list elements to on a separate row but all of the dict items to be in the same row. Do I need to write my own custom encoder or is there some other approach I need to take? Thanks!
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pretty-print JSON using JavaScript
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Closed 5 years ago.
I am storing some query in json file. the query is little bit lengthy. I want to store these query in multiple lines to show query clearly. In C# when we have like this query we put in the front of query # .. Is there any special key to put in the front of json string?
below is image what I mean by this.
No, there is no way to do this; newlines are not allowed in JSON strings [1].