Software Systems Laboratory JSON Converter Project

A pandas interface into converting .json files into other filetypes

Table of Contents

• Software Systems Laboratory JSON Converter Project
  • Table of Contents
  • About
  • Developer Tooling
    • Operating System
    • Python Software
  • How To Use
    • Installation
    • Command Line Arguements

About

The Software Systems Laboratory (SSL) JSON Converter Project is an interface into the pandas libraries ability to convert .json files into other filetypes.

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause. See the LICENSE for more information.

Developer Tooling

To maximize the utility of this project the following software packages are required:

Operating System

This tool targets Mac OS and Linux. SSL Metrics software is not supported or recommended to run on Windows but can be modified to do so at your own risk.

It is recomendded to run this tool on Mac OS or Linux. However, if you are on a Windows machine, you can use WSL to develop as well.

Python Software

The software listed in this section is meant for developing tools

All listed Python software assumes that you have downloaded and installed Python 3.9.6 or greater.

• pandas
• progress

You can install all of the Python software with one of the following one-liners:

• pip install --upgrade pandas pip progress
• pip install --upgrade pip -r requirements.txt

How To Use

Installation

You can install the tool from PyPi with one of the following one liners:

• pip install ssl-metrics-meta
• pip install ssl-metrics-json-converter

Command Line Arguements

ssl-metrics-json-converter -h

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        File to be converted to other outputs
  --clipboard           Copy the data from the file to the system's clipboard
  --csv                 Convert the input to *.csv
  --excel               Convert the input to *.xlsx
  --feather             Convert the input to *.feather
  --hdf                 Convert the input to *.hdf5
  --html                Convert the input to *.html
  --json                Convert the input to *.json
  --latex               Convert the input to *.tex
  --markdown            Convert the input to *.md
  --parquet             Convert the input to *.parquet
  --pickle              Convert the input to *.pkl
  --stata               Convert input to *.dta
  --tsv                 Convert the input to *.tsv