Feature - read_json()

[amhsirak]

Read JSON files in ickle dataframes.
User must be able to import a file with json extension and read it in dataframe.

[tharun634]

Hello, I am interested in this issue.

Can you give me a JSON file / Python dictionary example of an input to read_json(). Because, I see that the __init__ takes a dict as well, so I just wanted to understand how read_json() will be different from __init__

[amhsirak]

@tharun634 Hello. You are right - for dictionaries we simply create a dataframe and print it. We don't need to handle it in read_json() method.
Our primary focus is JSON file - user must be able to import a file with json extension and read it in dataframe.
Sample JSON file - http://jsonblob.com/1025743492709892096

[tharun634]

Thanks for the response.

So, looking from the JSON blob that you shared. Will there be an array of such JSON objects in the json file? such as this? Where each JSON Object in the array corresponds to a row in the dataframe

[amhsirak]

@tharun634 Yes - possible. We can first go with a simple JSON files and then dig deeper.
Also checkout json package in built in Python. Can be of help 😄 https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html