Re: Should I use JSON?

On 5/21/20 8:37 AM, stan wrote:
> Worming on a small project, and have been doing a lot of Perl scripting to
> parse various types of files to populate the database. Now I need to get
> data from a cloud services provider (time-keeping). They have a REST API
> that returns data in a JSOSN format.
>
> So here is the question, should I just manually parse this data, as I have
> been doing to insert into appropriate entities into the database? Or should I
> insert the JSON data, and use some queries in the database to populate my
> tables from the JSON tables?
>

I use Python for this sort of thing. A JSON array of objects maps so
nicely to a Python list of dicts that I just do the parsing in Python
and INSERT the parsed data into the table.

>

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