JsonSourceMap

Calculate JSON Pointers to each value within a JSON document along with the line, column and character position for the start and end of that value. For more information see: https://github.com/open-alchemy/json-source-map/wiki.

For example:

python -m pip install json_source_map

from json_source_map import calculate


print(calculate('{"foo": "bar"}'))

The above prints:

{
    '': Entry(
        value_start=Location(line=0, column=0, position=0),
        value_end=Location(line=0, column=14, position=14),
        key_start=None,
        key_end=None,
    ),
    '/foo': Entry(
        value_start=Location(line=0, column=8, position=8),
        value_end=Location(line=0, column=13, position=13),
        key_start=Location(line=0, column=1, position=1),
        key_end=Location(line=0, column=6, position=6),
    ),
}

Where:

• each key in the dictionary is a JSON path to an item,
• each value in the dictionarty contains the mapping of the item at the JSON path which have the following properties:
  • value_start is the start of the value,
  • value_end is the end of the value,
  • key_start is the start of the key (which is None at the root level and for array items),
  • key_end is the end of the key (which is None at the root level and for array items) and
• each of the above have the following properties:
  • line is the zero-indexed line position,
  • column is the zero-indexed column position and
  • position is the zero-indexed character position in the string (independent of the line and column).

The following features have been implemented:

• support for primitive types (strings, numbers, booleans and null),
• support for structural types (array and object) and
• support for space, tab, carriage and return whitespace.