This is a very fast how-to encode and decode python objects to json.
- For decoding we will use the parameter object_hook. With it, we can pass a function to the json.loads function.
- For encoding we will use a Custom JSON encoder.
Mapping incoming object with standard library
import json
my_json_str = '{"name":"John", "age":31, "city":"New York"}'
my_dict_json = json.loads(my_json_str)
print(my_json_str)
# output: {"name":"John", "age":31, "city":"New York"}
Now, with a dictionary we have different approaches for making the object mapping
Mapping approach with dict and constructor´s parameters
class MyObject(object):
def __init__(self, age:int, city:str, name:str):
self.name = name
self.age = age
self.city = city
def __repr__(self):
return f"{self.name} {self.age} {self.city}"
my_obj = json.loads(my_json_str, object_hook=lambda data: MyObject(**data))
print(my_obj)
# output: John 31 New York
Decode class with a Custom encoder
class CustomJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
def default(self, obj):
if issubclass(type(obj), MyObject):
return json.dumps(obj.__dict__, default=lambda _: None)
return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
obj_str = json.dumps(my_obj, default=CustomJSONEncoder().default)
print(obj_str)
#output: "{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 31, \"city\": \"New York\"}"
Mapping approach with NamedTuple
from typing import NamedTuple
class MyObjectTuple(NamedTuple):
name:str
city:str
age:int
my_obj = json.loads(my_json_str, object_hook=lambda data: MyObjectTuple(**data))
print(my_obj)
# output: MyObjectTuple(name='John', city='New York', age=31)
print((my_obj)._asdict())
# output: {'name': 'John', 'city': 'New York', 'age': 31}
Decode class without custom encoder
obj_str = json.dumps(my_obj._asdict())
print(obj_str)
# output: {"name": "John", "city": "New York", "age": 31}
Do you any other method to object decode/encode? Do you think that it can be done better?. Leave your thoughts below, feedback is always welcomed :)
Top comments (2)
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