altrepo-json

A small Python package for cleaning, validating, inspecting, comparing, and converting JSON-like data.

Installation

You can install this package locally for testing:

pip install -e .

Features

• Validate: Check if data is valid JSON or conforms to expected basic shapes.
• Format: Pretty-print or minify JSON strings.
• Inspect: Analyze JSON structures to get depths, leaf nodes, or paths.
• Flatten: Flatten nested dictionaries into single-level maps with dotted keys, and unflatten them.
• Path: Retrieve or set values inside deep JSON structures using dot-notation paths.
• Diff: Compare two JSON objects and find differences.

Usage

from altrepo_json import flatten, unflatten, diff, path

# Flattening
data = {"user": {"profile": {"name": "Alice"}}}
flat_data = flatten(data)
# {'user.profile.name': 'Alice'}

# Path access
value = path.get_by_path(data, "user.profile.name")
# 'Alice'

# Diff
data2 = {"user": {"profile": {"name": "Bob", "age": 30}}}
differences = diff.diff(data, data2)
# {'modified': {'user.profile.name': ('Alice', 'Bob')}, 'added': {'user.profile.age': 30}}

Browser version

AltRepo JSON is part of the AltRepo tool ecosystem.

Use the browser-based JSON tools here: https://altrepo.net/dev/