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Chapter: Days 40-42: JSON in Python
Lecture: Inspecting JSON schema
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Okay, so to start we're going to look at
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a basic example of JSON output or JSON schema.
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Okay so it is pretty complex at times,
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especially when it starts getting really deep.
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So just look at this basic example to understand it.
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So from Python perspective, it looks pretty simple for now.
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This is a really basic one again
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and it's about a sort of person object
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so you've got a title of a person.
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You got the type, it's an object.
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And then what are the properties of that?
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Well there is a first name, a last name, an age,
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a description, and so on and so forth.
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What really gets people and gets me sometimes
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with a JSON is once it's decoded in Python,
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all of these become nested dictionaries and lists.
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And it makes it quite difficult when you're writing loops
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and what not to try and drill down
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to those nested dictionaries.
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So looking at this, if this was formatted
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like a dictionary in Python, your first level
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of the dictionary has the key title value person,
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key type value object.
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Key properties but the value of properties is
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another dictionary and that dictionary goes
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all the way down to here, okay.
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And within that dictionary, you then have
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another key called first name whose value is
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yet another dictionary, okay.
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And then that closes off here and then you have
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another key whose value is yet another dictionary and so on.
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When you break it down visually, it makes a lot more sense.
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That said, it is still a little bit of a crazy process
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trying to drill down, okay.
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And we're going to work through that
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in the next couple of videos.
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So this is just a nice basic example
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of what JSON schema looks like.
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So have a good look at this.
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Wrap your head around it and move onto the next video.
