json2table 1.0

This is a simple Python packages that allows a JSON object to be converted to HTML. it provides a convert function that accepts a dict instance and returns a string of converted HTML. For example, the simple JSON object {'key' : 'value'} can be converted to HTML via:

>>> from json2table import convert
>>> json_object = {'key' : 'value'}
>>> build_direction = 'LEFT_TO_RIGHT'
>>> table_attributes = {'style' : 'width:100%'}
>>> html = convert(json_object, build_direction=build_direction, table_attributes=table_attributes)
>>> print(html)
'<table style="width:100%"><tr><th>key</th><td>value</td></tr></table>'

The resulting table will resemble

More complex parsing is also possible. If a list of dict’s provides the same list of keys, the generated HTML with gather items by key and display them in the same column.

{"menu": {
  "id": "file",
  "value": "File",
    "menuitem": [
      {"value": "New", "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"},
      {"value": "Open", "onclick": "OpenDoc()"},
      {"value": "Close", "onclick": "CloseDoc()"}
    ]
  }
}

Output:

It might, however, be more readable if we were able to build the table from top-to-bottom instead of the default left-to-right. Changing the build_direction to 'TOP_TO_BOTTOM' yields:

Table attributes are added via the table_attributes parameter. This parameter should be a dict of (key, value) pairs to apply to the table in the form key="value". If in our simple example before we additionally wanted to apply a class attribute of "table table-striped" we would use the:

>>> table_attributes = {'style' : 'width:100%', 'class' : 'table table-striped'}

and convert just as before:

>>> html = convert(json_object, build_direction=build_direction, table_attributes=table_attributes)

>>> pip install json2table

>>> python setup.py install

>>> python unittest -m tests.test_json2table