Decantor: A JSON To CSV Conversion Tool
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Authors:
- Michael Van Veen
Date: 1/28/11
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Description: |
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Accountants of the world, rejoice! Watch in awe as sophisticated, recursive
tree structures flatten with ease. Decantor is a tool to convert a list of
arbitrary JSON objects ino an equivalent matrix/spreadsheet representation.
Currently only works on javascript arrays of json objects, due to the python
json library's predilection towards exporting them.
Example Usage: |
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python decantor.py <json input> <csv output>
Changelog:
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- 3/2/11 : Scrubs empty columns from output. Added some doctests.
CSV formatting disregards newlines and escapes everything.
TODOS:
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- Implement tests. Fuzz testing could be neat.
- Support for other JSON list formats (newline seperated, MongoDB, etc.)
- Support for XML. (XML -> JSON -> CSV)
License: |
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The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2011, Michael Van Veen, and Gettaround, Inc.
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