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Option to keep tuples on the same line #100
Description
I'm using rapidjson (great package, thank you!) to dump contents to a json file, and I use indent=0 to get a readable/diffable file.
However I have many tuples in my files, such as transformation matrices, and (though JSON has no tuple type) it would be nice to have them all on the same line instead of broken down, which makes the file harder tor ead and larger.
So basically:
[{"matrix": (1, 0, 0, 1, 181, 0)}, {"matrix": (1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)}]would become:
[
{
"matrix": [1, 0, 0, 1, 181, 0]
},
{
"matrix": [1, 0, 0, 1, 181, 0]
}
]instead of:
[
{
"matrix": [
1,
0,
0,
1,
181,
0
]
},
{
"matrix": [
1,
0,
0,
1,
181,
0
]
}
]because tuples wouldn't get flattened.
Does that sound reasonable / is it feasible?
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lelit commentedon Apr 20, 2018
adrientetar commentedon Apr 20, 2018
Thanks for the thoughts! It seems unlikely a JSON library would add support for "variable" indentation, so instead I chose to first make the string with all the newlines, and then find lists that contains simple elements (aka, no collections) and remove newlines within them.
lelit commentedon Apr 20, 2018
One more idea, that may or may not be simpler than massaging the final output: if you have control on how the data in produced, you could preformat those tuples and wrap the result in
RawJSONinstances, and then calldumps()on the whole dataset...adrientetar commentedon Apr 20, 2018
Indeed that looks like it'd solve my problem efficiently, thanks!