I'm trying to get jsonpickle to dump the data such that duplicate items are explicitly displayed rather than using references. I tried encoding with make_refs=False, which prevented it from using the py/id references but still didn't explicitly show the duplicate item. This is a simplistic example of what I'm running into:
from typing import List
import jsonpickle
class Thing:
def __init__(self, name: str = None, desc: str = None):
self.name = name
self.desc = desc
class BiggerThing:
def __init__(self, name: str = None, things: List[Thing] = None):
self.name = name
self.things = things if things else []
thing1 = Thing("First", "the first thing")
thing2 = Thing("Seoond", "the second thing")
thing3 = Thing("Third", "the third thing")
main_thing = BiggerThing("The main thing", [thing1, thing2, thing3, thing1])
If I then encode using jsonpickle.encode(main_thing, make_refs=False, indent=2), the result I get looks like this:
{
"py/object": "__main__.BiggerThing",
"name": "The main thing",
"things": [
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "First",
"desc": "the first thing"
},
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "Seoond",
"desc": "the second thing"
},
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "Third",
"desc": "the third thing"
},
"<__main__.Thing object at 0x000001FFACA08408>"
]
}
I've not used jsonpickle before, so I'm assuming I'm missing something simple. How do I get it so that jsonpickle will encode it this way instead:
{
"py/object": "__main__.BiggerThing",
"name": "The main thing",
"things": [
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "First",
"desc": "the first thing"
},
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "Seoond",
"desc": "the second thing"
},
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "Third",
"desc": "the third thing"
},
{
"py/object": "__main__.Thing",
"name": "First",
"desc": "the first thing"
}
]
}
If there's another module that'll do this better, I'm open to that too. Thank you!
