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Use JSON files as if they are python modules

License: MIT License

Python 100.00%

python stupid don-t use this

json-sempai's Introduction

json-sempai

Have you ever been kept awake at night, desperately feeling a burning desire to do nothing else but directly import JSON files as if they were python modules [1]? Now you can!

This abomination allows you to write

import some_json_file

and if some_json_file.json can be found, it will be available as if it is a python module.

Usage

Slap a json file somewhere on your python path. tester.json:

{
    "hello": "world",
    "this": {
        "can": {
            "be": "nested"
        }
    }
}

Now import jsonsempai and your json file!

>>> from jsonsempai import magic
>>> import tester
>>> tester
<module 'tester' from 'tester.json'>
>>> tester.hello
u'world'
>>> tester.this.can.be
u'nested'
>>>

Alternatively, a context manager may be used (100% less magic):

>>> import jsonsempai
>>> with jsonsempai.imports():
...     import tester
>>> tester
<module 'tester' from 'tester.json'>

Python packages are also supported:

$ tree
.
└── python_package
    ├── file.json
    ├── __init__.py
    └── nested_package
        ├── __init__.py
        └── second.json

>>> from jsonsempai import magic
>>> from python_package import file
>>> file
<module 'python_package.file' from 'python_package/file.json'>
>>> import python_package.nested_package.second
>>> python_package.nested_package.second
<module 'python_package.nested_package.second' from 'python_package/nested_package/second.json'>

Installing

Install from pip:

$ pip install json-sempai

or clone this repo and install from source:

$ python setup.py install

To purge this horror from your machine:

$ pip uninstall json-sempai

[1]	Disclaimer: Only do this if you hate yourself and the rest of the world.

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json-sempai's Issues

Dictionaries within arrays are not "Dot"ed

i.e.

{'array': [{"nested": "but undotted"}]}

Please, remove this library. Bad way to load json...

Please, remove this library. Bad way to load json... 21 fork... It is terrifying

Possibly violates JSON license

To quote the license

The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

Looks too legit

One of my co-workers suggested that we use this. I don't know if he's joking.
I hope he is.

I'm concerned that someone might be foolish enough to actually try to use this.

Possible resolution: move documentation pertaining to hating yourself and the world further up in the readme.
Other possible resolution: destroy this project and all references to it, removing it from github and pypi.

Save json files with query symbol in filename

Like:

propertyValue--/uuid/.json?{{cacheBustUnitTest1}}/{{timeStamp}}

Load the URLs at the boot of your interface in a config or factory asynchronously. Then use $sce to parse the string and instantiate it as a template variable from environment variables of your app (timeStamp, etc.).

Rename to json-senpai

One does not simply use m without vowel after. The correct version is senpai, せんぱい.

Auto eval code strings

In my production server I keep needing to do:

def crud_handler():
    request = __import__('user_posted_json')
    eval(request.method)(db_connection, request.args)

Please consider allowing this syntax so my code looks cleaner:

def crud_handler():
    request = __import__('user_posted_json')
    request.method(db_connection, request.args)

I think adding a __call__ method on DottedDict that wraps eval should do it.