Recursive function to create hierarchical JSON object?

Question

I\'m just not a good enough computer scientist to figure this out by myself :(

I have an API that returns JSON responses that look like this:

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Answer 1

I had the same problem this afternoon, and ended up rejigging some code I found online.

I've uploaded the code to Github (https://github.com/abmohan/objectjson) as well as PyPi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/objectjson/0.1) under the package name 'objectjson'. Here it is below, as well:

Code (objectjson.py)

import json

class ObjectJSON:

  def __init__(self, json_data):

    self.json_data = ""

    if isinstance(json_data, str):
      json_data = json.loads(json_data)
      self.json_data = json_data

    elif isinstance(json_data, dict):
      self.json_data = json_data

  def __getattr__(self, key):
    if key in self.json_data:
      if isinstance(self.json_data[key], (list, dict)):
        return ObjectJSON(self.json_data[key])
      else:
        return self.json_data[key]
    else:
      raise Exception('There is no json_data[\'{key}\'].'.format(key=key))

  def __repr__(self):
    out = self.__dict__
    return '%r' % (out['json_data'])

Sample Usage

from objectjson import ObjectJSON

json_str = '{ "test": {"a":1,"b": {"c":3} } }'

json_obj = ObjectJSON(json_str)

print(json_obj)           # {'test': {'b': {'c': 3}, 'a': 1}}
print(json_obj.test)      # {'b': {'c': 3}, 'a': 1}
print(json_obj.test.a)    # 1
print(json_obj.test.b.c)  # 3