I have a couple of classes instantiate basic types like str, int, float, list, dict's but also other classes that contains similar types. Essentially I have nested layers of objects. It is converted this way so data can be represented as objects and manipulated later. Once all the processing is done I want to export the data into a dictionary so it can be stored as a Json object on a database. Is this common? Are there libraries that help you do this. So far I was going to implement a function that converts the top level class and nested objects into dictionary nested output. I'm worried I will get stack overflow from the recursion I will be using to def getObjectAsDict(self): d = {} for name_of_attr in dir(some_class): if name_of_attr.startswith("_"): continue value_of_attr = getattr(some_class, name_of_attr) if isinstance(value_of_attr, str): pass elif isinstance(value_of_attr, int): pass elif isinstance(value_of_attr, float): pass elif isinstance(value_of_attr, bool): pass elif isinstance(value_of_attr, list): for idx, item in enumerate(value_of_attr): # some recursion logic here elif isinstance(value_of_attr, dict): for key, value in value_of_attr.items(): # some recursion logic here elif isinstance(value_of_attr, ComplexObject): value_of_attr = value_of_attr.getObjectAsDict() # some recursion logic here else: continue d[name_of_attr] = value_of_attr Continue reading...
