#
# encoding: UTF-8
# api: python
# type: functions
# title: json emulation
# description: simplify usage of some gtk widgets
# version: 1.7
# author: mario
# license: public domain
#
#
# This module provides the JSON api. If the python 2.6 module
# isn't available, it provides an emulation using str() and
# eval() and Python notation. (The representations are close.)
#
# Additionally it filters out any left-over objects. Sometimes
# pygtk-objects crawled into the streams[] lists, because rows
# might have been queried from the widgets.
#
#-- reading and writing json (for the config module) ----------------------------------
# try to load the system module first
try:
from json import dump as json_dump, load as json_load
except:
print("no native Python JSON module")
#except:
# pseudo-JSON implementation
# - the basic python data types dict,list,str,int are mostly identical to json
# - therefore a basic str() conversion is enough for writing
# - for reading the more bothersome eval() is used
# - it's however no severe security problem here, because we're just reading
# local config files (written by us) and accept no data from outside / web
# NOTE: This code is only used, if the Python json module (since 2.6) isn't there.
# store object in string representation into filepointer
def dump(obj, fp, indent=0):
obj = filter_data(obj)
try:
return json_dump(obj, fp, indent=indent, sort_keys=(indent and indent>0))
except:
return fp.write(str(obj))
# .replace("'}, ", "'},\n ") # add whitespace
# .replace("', ", "',\n "))
# .replace("': [{'", "':\n[\n{'")
pass
# load from filepointer, decode string into dicts/list
def load(fp):
try:
#print("try json")
r = json_load(fp)
r = filter_data(r) # turn unicode() strings back into str() - pygtk does not accept u"strings"
except:
#print("fall back on pson")
fp.seek(0)
r = eval(fp.read(1<<27)) # max 128 MB
# print("fake json module: in python variable dump notation")
if r == None:
r = {}
return r
# removes any objects, turns unicode back into str
def filter_data(obj):
if type(obj) in (int, float, bool, str):
return obj
# elif type(obj) == str: #->str->utf8->str
# return str(unicode(obj))
elif type(obj) == unicode:
return str(obj)
elif type(obj) in (list, tuple, set):
obj = list(obj)
for i,v in enumerate(obj):
obj[i] = filter_data(v)
elif type(obj) == dict:
for i,v in obj.iteritems():
i = filter_data(i)
obj[i] = filter_data(v)
else:
print("invalid object in data, converting to string: ", type(obj), obj)
obj = str(obj)
return obj