i have tried to solve my problem studing this and this and several other pages but i'm not able to understand. I hope i will ask something new.
I try to explain the problem because i don't known the right way to solve it.
I make two requests with requests.get to obtain two json answer from the same api of two version of the same sdk. I want to understand if those json are equal but i want to "whitelist" some values thats i known it will be different (for example creation timestamp).
To do this i want to replace some values of the same keys with the same values in order to ignore difference inside some keys.
For example /server/v1/api.php response is :
{
"result" : "OK",
"data" : {
"text" : "someText",
"array" : [
"foo", "bar"
],
"dateTime" : "24/10/2015 22:14"
}
}
and /server/v2/api.php response is :
{
"result" : "OK",
"data" : {
"text" : "someText",
"array" : [
"foo", "bar"
],
"dateTime" : "24/10/2015 22:15"
}
}
Now I want to "whitelist" dateTime thats because it's normal that it values will change.
How to replace values of a key at every deep? I need to obtain
{
"result" : "OK",
"data" : {
"text" : "someText",
"array" : [
"foo", "bar"
],
"dateTime" : "whitelisted"
}
}
so the two json will be equal.
in the real case i DON'T known json structure and I NEED to USE a hardcoded whitelist to filter the test result so i need to iterate over the json in order to apply the whitelist.
this is a real example
d1 = {
"ssoCode": "OK",
"errorDescription": "",
"content": {
"xcontentId": "508e5d95-2267-4408-b801-3742819a6d98",
"creationDate": "2015-10-26T16: 16: 07.504Z",
"sourcefilesOldVersions": [],
"id": "b37412ee-b7de-4642-9d38-ae336e030f77",
"userId": "andrea.bisello",
"owner": "twin",
"contentType": "PAGELET",
"solution": "VIEW",
"availableInSolutions": [
"VIEW"
],
"sourceFiles": [],
"packagedId": [],
"channels": [
{
"status": "PUBLISHED",
"channelType": "WEB",
"startTime": "2015-10-26T16: 16: 07.707Z",
"finishTime": "2015-10-26T16: 16: 07.723Z"
}
],
"xpublishedId": "0ad653cc-664a-4d36-8b9e-b7788a43a3b4"
},
"resultCode": "OK",
"actionsInError": []
}
update :
as suggested by Letzerwille i should use dict.update() to apply whitelist. How to apply to dict contained in my first dict without removing other keys? for example this is my whitelist dict
whitelist = {
"content": {
"xcontentId": "whitelisted",
"creationDate": "whitelisted",
"id": "whitelisted",
"channels": [
{
"startTime": "whitelisted",
"finishTime": "whitelisted"
}
],
"xpublishedId": "whitelisted"
}
}
it keeps all the keys that i want "to whitelist".
but applying this dict i will destroy every other keys of "content" dict, because the entire "content" keys will be overwritten by the new one so i lost, for example, ["content"]["owner"] that should not be removed (this is the result)
{
"ssoCode": "OK",
"actionsInError": [],
"errorDescription": "",
"resultCode": "OK",
"content": {
"creationDate": "whitelisted",
"id": "whitelisted",
"xcontentId": "whitelisted",
"xpublishedId": "whitelisted",
"channels": [
{
"startTime": "whitelisted",
"finishTime": "whitelisted"
}
]
}
}
how i can solve this problem?
so i tried to make a function with receive a dict and a whitelist (for example whitelist = ["id"] ) but something during the iteration of the list doesn't work and it return a corrupted object (thats because entering in the list switch case, the function exit)
def applyWhitelist(something, whitelist):
print(something)
if isinstance(something, dict):
for k, v in something.items():
print(k, v)
if isinstance(v, str):
if k in whitelist:
something[k] = "whitelisted"
if isinstance(v, int):
if k in whitelist:
something[k] = "whitelisted"
if isinstance(v, dict):
return applyWhitelist(something[k], whitelist)
if isinstance(v, list):
if len(v) > 0:
return applyWhitelist(something[k], whitelist)
if isinstance(something, list):
for el in something:
if isinstance(el, dict):
return applyWhitelist(el, whitelist)
if isinstance(el, list):
if len(el) > 0:
return applyWhitelist(el, whitelist)
if isinstance(el, str):
if el in whitelist:
el = "whitelisted"
if isinstance(el, int):
if el in whitelist:
el = "whitelisted"
if isinstance(something, str):
if something in whitelist:
something = "whitelisted"
if isinstance(something, int):
if something in whitelist:
something = "whitelisted"
Is my way the best way to obtain that result? any suggestions?
