On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 01:12:09PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:38:51AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> 2) JSON data that is deeply nested sucks because objects are turned into >>> dictionaries so you have to write things like: >>> >>> package['listings']['F-8']['people']['toshio']['acls']['commit']['status'] >>> >>> to get the status of a person's acls on a package. >> >> When writing zmugfs I used simplejson.loads(rsp, object_hook=create_tree) >> where create_tree is an object creation method. The other option >> is to change the depth of the object returned. >> > This sounds interesting. How do you tell which dictionaries can be turned > into objects and which must remain dictionaries? Or does your create_tree > method have special knowledge of the data being returned? The create_tree in this example knows that it is building a Tree. I also have a create_album which creates an Album. It isn't generic at all, but it does offer a way to return objects from json responses quite easily. -- jesus m. rodriguez | jesusr@xxxxxxxxxx sr. software engineer | irc: zeus red hat network | 919.754.4413 (w) rhce # 805008586930012 | 919.623.0080 (c) +-------------------------------------------+ | "Those who cannot learn from history | | are doomed to repeat it." | | -- George Santayana | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
