Cum se transformă JSON în obiect Python
Python's json library has many utilities for encoding and decoding data in JSON format. In particular, the json.load() method decodes an JSON read as a file, and the json.loads() decode an JSON read as a string. In general, when decoding JSON files, the data is converted to Python dictionaries, but it is possible to convert it to a custom object by using the parameter object_hook.
For instance, suppose you have the following JSON object:
json_obj = """{
"name" : "Felipe",
"email" : "[email protected]",
"age" : 29
}"""
and the following class:
class User():
name : str
email : str
age : int
def __init__(self, input):
self.name = input.get("name")
self.email = input.get("email")
self.age = input.get("age")
If we call json.loads() cu User ca object_hook parametrul, User.__init__() method will be called with the JSON’s corresponding dict ca intrare.
import json
user = json.loads(json_obj, object_hook = User)
print(f"User {user.name}, age {user.age}, email {user.email}")
User Felipe, age 29, email [email protected]
But what if you have a nested JSON?
json.loads() actually calls the object_hook function every time it reads a fully formed JSON object from the string. Consider the following JSON, returned from the Random User Generator API
json_obj = """{
"gender": "male",
"name": {
"title": "Mr",
"first": "Ian",
"last": "Walters"
},
"location": {
"street": {
"number": 3161,
"name": "Saddle Dr"
},
"city": "Bendigo",
"state": "Western Australia",
"country": "Australia",
"postcode": 4285,
"coordinates": {
"latitude": "-84.7903",
"longitude": "-29.1020"
},
"timezone": {
"offset": "+9:00",
"description": "Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Sapporo, Yakutsk"
}
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"login": {
"uuid": "6ee5b2e8-01c3-4314-8f7f-80059f5dd9ec",
"username": "lazyzebra585",
"password": "walter",
"salt": "afXmogsa",
"md5": "a40e87023b57a4a60c7cb398584cbac3",
"sha1": "74caf43400be38cce60a8da2e6d1c367246505c2",
"sha256": "1becdf34bcc6704726c7e9b38821a5792f9dd0689d30789fb5e099a6e51e860a"
},
"dob": {
"date": "1947-06-06T02:45:41.895Z",
"age": 75
},
"registered": {
"date": "2003-03-25T00:15:32.791Z",
"age": 19
},
"phone": "06-9388-6976",
"cell": "0469-101-424",
"id": {
"name": "TFN",
"value": "561493929"
},
"picture": {
"large": "https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/men/32.jpg",
"medium": "https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/med/men/32.jpg",
"thumbnail": "https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/thumb/men/32.jpg"
},
"nat": "AU"
}"""
Let’s print the decoded JSON at each step to see what happens:
json.loads(json_obj, object_hook = print)
{'title': 'Mr', 'first': 'Ian', 'last': 'Walters'}
{'number': 3161, 'name': 'Saddle Dr'}
{'latitude': '-84.7903', 'longitude': '-29.1020'}
{'offset': '+9:00', 'description': 'Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Sapporo, Yakutsk'}
{'street': None, 'city': 'Bendigo', 'state': 'Western Australia', 'country': 'Australia', 'postcode': 4285, 'coordinates': None, 'timezone': None}
{'uuid': '6ee5b2e8-01c3-4314-8f7f-80059f5dd9ec', 'username': 'lazyzebra585', 'password': 'walter', 'salt': 'afXmogsa', 'md5': 'a40e87023b57a4a60c7cb398584cbac3', 'sha1': '74caf43400be38cce60a8da2e6d1c367246505c2', 'sha256': '1becdf34bcc6704726c7e9b38821a5792f9dd0689d30789fb5e099a6e51e860a'}
{'date': '1947-06-06T02:45:41.895Z', 'age': 75}
{'date': '2003-03-25T00:15:32.791Z', 'age': 19}
{'name': 'TFN', 'value': '561493929'}
{'large': 'https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/men/32.jpg', 'medium': 'https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/med/men/32.jpg', 'thumbnail': 'https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/thumb/men/32.jpg'}
{'gender': 'male', 'name': None, 'location': None, 'email': '[email protected]', 'login': None, 'dob': None, 'registered': None, 'phone': '06-9388-6976', 'cell': '0469-101-424', 'id': None, 'picture': None, 'nat': 'AU'}
So json.loads() apelează object_hook function every time it reads a fully formed JSON, that is, every time it closes a bracket pair {}. Then, it creates the whole JSON object by using the result of the object_hook function – note the None (the return value of print) in the last printed line.
We will show two work-arounds for this issue. The first is to modify our User.__init__() method to be more flexible with respect to the input. We will do this using the __dict__ attribute. Every Python object has a __dict__ attribute that holds every attribute’s name and value. Our modified __init__() method will update this dictionary:
class User():
def __init__(self, input):
self.__dict__.update(input)
user = json.loads(json_obj, object_hook = User)
print(f"User {user.name.first} {user.name.last}, age {user.dob.age}, email {user.email}")
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User Ian Walters, age 75, email [email protected]
Another possible work-around is to use the collections.namedtuple clasă:
from collections import namedtuple
def create_user(input):
User = namedtuple('User', input.keys())
return User(**input)
user = json.loads(json_obj, object_hook=create_user)
print(f"User {user.name.first} {user.name.last}, age {user.dob.age}, email {user.email}")
User Ian Walters, age 75, email [email protected]
Unde namedtuple('User', input.keys()) creates a tuple subclass called User with the input’s keys as attributes names, and User(**input) assigns the corresponding values for the attributes.
