glyphs 0.1.3

Swiss army knife of data extraction

glyphs

Examples

Sample response JSON from an API call looks as follows. Let's assume for the example that we keep a reference to that dictionary.

my_json_dict = {
    'expand': 'schema,names',
        'issues':[
                    {
                        'expand': 'operations,versionedRepresentations,editmeta,changelog,renderedFields',
                        'fields': {
                            'status': {
                                'description': '',
                                'id': '10001',
                                'name': 'Done',
                                'statusCategory': 
                                            {
                                                'colorName': 'green',
                                                'id': 3,
                                                'key': 'done',
                                                'name': 'Done',
                                            }
                                        }
                                    },
                        'id': '10022',
                        'key': 'XXX-23'},
                     {
                        'expand': 'operations,versionedRepresentations,editmeta,changelog,renderedFields',
                        'fields': {
                            'status': {
                                'description': '',
                                'id': '10001',
                                'name': 'Done',
                                'statusCategory': 
                                            {
                                                'colorName': 'green',
                                                'id': 3,
                                                'key': 'done',
                                                'name': 'Done',
                                            }
                                        }
                                    },
                        'id': '10021',
                        'key': 'XXX-22'},
                     ],
    'maxResults': 50,
    'startAt': 0,
    'total': 17
}

How would you get the status & statusCategory's id for each item of the "issue"?

    issues = my_json_dict['issues']

    if issues:
        # add a lot of code to check if the type returns worked for you
        # add a lot of code to handle exceptions

        for issue in issues:
            status_name = issue['fields']['status']['name']
            # add a lot of code to check if the type returned works for you
            # add a lot of code to handle exceptions
            # add a code convert the data or have the rest of your code handle unpredictable returns

            status_id = issue['fields']['status']['statusCategory']['id']
            # add a lot of code to check if the type returned works for you
            # add a lot of code to handle exceptions
            # add a code convert the data or have the rest of your code handle unpredictable returns

This is the shortest you could possibly write it. Now you have to hope for the best from there, write a lot of code to handle exception, data conversion etc.

With Glyphs:

    from glyphs.ro.ROGlyph import ROGlyph
    from glyphs.utils.DictUtils import DictUtils

    issues_glyph = ROGlyph('issues', r_translation_function=list, r_default_value=tuple())
    name_glyph = ROGlyph('fields>status>name', r_translation_function=unicode,)
    cat_id_glyph = ROGlyph('fields>statusCategory>id', r_translation_function=int, r_default_value=-1)

    issues = DictUtils.get(my_json_dict, issues_glyph)

    for issue in issues:
        status_name = DictUtils.get(my_json_dict, name_glyph)
        status_id = DictUtils.get(my_json_dict, cat_id_glyph)

Similar code with a twist:

1. we know that what we got is precisely what we wanted.
2. simpler errors and missing data are automatically handled for us (with tasteful defaults)
3. it also supports functools.partial if we want to make our code shorter
4. the glyphs are infinitely shareable!! reuse and abuse!
5. we can swap DictUtils with a different util (any that you want) if the type of my_json_dict changes (in later versions of the code) and everything will still work as we intended.