I wish to manipulate a standard JSON object to an object where each line must contain a separate, self-contained valid JSON object. See JSON Lines
JSON_file =
[{u'index': 1,
u'no': 'A',
u'met': u'1043205'},
{u'index': 2,
u'no': 'B',
u'met': u'000031043206'},
{u'index': 3,
u'no': 'C',
u'met': u'0031043207'}]
To JSONL:
{u'index': 1, u'no': 'A', u'met': u'1043205'}
{u'index': 2, u'no': 'B', u'met': u'031043206'}
{u'index': 3, u'no': 'C', u'met': u'0031043207'}
My current solution is to read the JSON file as a text file and remove the [ from the beginning and the ] from the end. Thus, creating a valid JSON object on each line, rather than a nested object containing lines.
I wonder if there is a more elegant solution? I suspect something could go wrong using string manipulation on the file.
The motivation is to read json files into RDD on Spark. See related question - Reading JSON with Apache Spark - `corrupt_record`
解决方案
Your input appears to be a sequence of Python objects; it certainly is not valid a JSON document.
If you have a list of Python dictionaries, then all you have to do is dump each entry into a file separately, followed by a newline:
import json
with open('output.jsonl', 'w') as outfile:
for entry in JSON_file:
json.dump(entry, outfile)
outfile.write('\n')
The default configuration for the json module is to output JSON without newlines embedded.
Assuming your A, B and C names are really strings, that would produce:
{"index": 1, "met": "1043205", "no": "A"}
{"index": 2, "met": "000031043206", "no": "B"}
{"index": 3, "met": "0031043207", "no": "C"}
If you started with a JSON document containing a list of entries, just parse that document first with json.load()/json.loads().