json2html 1.3.0
JSON to HTML Table Representation
License: MIT
Keywords: json,HTML,Table

json2html
=========

Python wrapper to convert ``JSON`` into a human readable ``HTML Table`` representation.

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Features
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* User friendly tablular fomat, easy to read and share.
* If value of the key is array of objects and all the keys are same(value of the key is a dict of list), the module will club by default. Eg.

.. code-block:: bash

	input = {
		"sampleData": [{
			"a":1, "b":2, "c":3
		}, {
			"a":5, "b":6, "c":7
		}]
	}

	will create only one row combining the results. This feature can be turned off by explicitly passing an argument ``clubbing = False``.

* Generated table can be provided some ``attributes`` explicitly. Eg. giving an ``id``, ``class`` or any ``data-*`` attribute.
* Python 3 compatible

Live Demo
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`Click here <http://json2html.varunmalhotra.xyz/>`_ for the online demo.

List of valid arguments
-----------------------

``json2html.convert`` - The module's ``convert`` method accepts the following arguments:

===================== ================
Argument              Description
--------------------- ----------------
`json`                a valid JSON; This can either be a string in valid JSON format or a python object that is either dict-like or list-like at the top level.
--------------------- ----------------
`table_attributes`    e.g. pass `id="info-table"` or `class="bootstrap-class"`/`data-*` to apply these attributes to the generated table
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`clubbing`            turn on[default]/off clubbing of list with same keys of a dict / Array of objects with same key
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`encode`              turn on/off[default] encoding of result to escaped html, compatible with any browser
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`escape`              turn on[default]/off escaping of html tags in text nodes (prevents XSS attacks in case you pass untrusted data to json2html)
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Installation
------------

.. code-block:: bash

	$ pip install json2html

Or, Download [here](https://github.com/softvar/json2html/releases) and run `python setup.py install` after changing directory to `/json2html`

Example Usage
-------------

**Example 1:** Basic usage

.. code-block:: python

	from json2html import *
	input = {
		"name": "json2html",
		"description": "Converts JSON to HTML tabular representation"
	}
	json2html.convert(json = input)

Output:

.. code-block:: bash

	<table border="1"><tr><th>name</th><td>json2html</td></tr><tr><th>description</th><td>converts JSON to HTML tabular representation</td></tr></table>

============ ========================================================
name         json2html
------------ --------------------------------------------------------
description  Converts JSON to HTML tabular representation
============ ========================================================

**Example 2:** Setting custom attributes to table

.. code-block:: python

	from json2html import *
	input = {
		"name": "json2html",
		"description": "Converts JSON to HTML tabular representation"
	}
	json2html.convert(json = input, table_attributes="id=\"info-table\" class=\"table table-bordered table-hover\"")

Output:

.. code-block:: bash

	<table id="info-table" class="table table-bordered table-hover"><tr><th>name</th><td>json2html</td></tr><tr><th>description</th><td>Converts JSON to HTML tabular representation</td></tr></table>

**Example 3:** Clubbing same keys of: Array of Objects

.. code-block:: python

	from json2html import *
	input = {
		"sample": [{
			"a":1, "b":2, "c":3
		}, {
			"a":5, "b":6, "c":7
		}]
	}
	json2html.convert(json = input)

Output:

.. code-block:: bash

	<table border="1"><tr><th>sample</th><td><table border="1"><thead><tr><th>b</th><th>c</th><th>a</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>5</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table>

======== ======= =======
  a         c      b
-------- ------- -------
   1        3       2
-------- ------- -------
   5        7       6
======== ======= =======

**Example 4:** Each row for different key(s) of: Array of Objects

.. code-block:: python

	from json2html import *
	input = {
		"sample": [{
			"a":1, "b":2, "c":3
		}, {
			"1a1":5, "1b1":6, "c":7
		}]
	}
	json2html.convert(json = input)

Output:

.. code-block:: bash

	<table border="1"><tr><th>sample</th><td><ul><li><table border="1"><tr><th>a</th><td>1</td></tr><tr><th>c</th><td>3</td></tr><tr><th>b</th><td>2</td></tr></table></li><li><table border="1"><tr><th>1b1</th><td>6</td></tr><tr><th>c</th><td>7</td></tr><tr><th>1a1</th><td>5</td></tr></table></li></ul></td></tr></table>

**Example 5:** [Source: `json.org/example <http://json.org/example>`_]

.. code-block:: python

	from json2html import *

	input = {
		"glossary": {
			"title": "example glossary",
			"GlossDiv": {
				"title": "S",
				"GlossList": {
					"GlossEntry": {
						"ID": "SGML",
						"SortAs": "SGML",
						"GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
						"Acronym": "SGML",
						"Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
						"GlossDef": {
							"para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",
							"GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
						},
						"GlossSee": "markup"
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

	json2html.convert(json = input)

Output:

.. code-block:: bash

	<table border="1"><tr><th>glossary</th><td><table border="1"><tr><th>GlossDiv</th><td><table border="1"><tr><th>GlossList</th><td><table border="1"><tr><th>GlossEntry</th><td><table border="1"><tr><th>GlossDef</th><td><table border="1"><tr><th>GlossSeeAlso</th><td><ul><li>GML</li><li>XML</li></ul></td></tr><tr><th>para</th><td>A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><th>GlossSee</th><td>markup</td></tr><tr><th>Acronym</th><td>SGML</td></tr><tr><th>GlossTerm</th><td>Standard Generalized Markup Language</td></tr><tr><th>Abbrev</th><td>ISO 8879:1986</td></tr><tr><th>SortAs</th><td>SGML</td></tr><tr><th>ID</th><td>SGML</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><th>title</th><td>S</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><th>title</th><td>example glossary</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Tests
------

.. code-block:: bash

	cd test/
	python run_tests.py

Tested with Python 2.6, 2.7 3.4, and 3.5.

Contributors
------------

1. Michel Mueller: [@muellermichel](https://github.com/muellermichel)
	* Added support for clubbing Array of Objects with same keys, more readable format.
	* Added support for adding custom `table_attributes`.
	* Convert now accepts unicode and bytestrings for the keyword argument "json".
	* Output now should always appear in the same order as input.
	* Now supports JSON Lists (at top level), including clubbing.
	* Now supports empty inputs and positional arguments for convert.
	* Python 3 support ; Added integration tests for Python 2.6, 3.4 and 3.5 such that support doesn't break.
	* Can now also do the proper encoding for you (disabled by default to not break backwards compatibility).
	* Can now handle non-JSON objects on a best-effort principle.
	* Now by default escapes html in text nodes to prevent XSS attacks.

2. Daniel Lekic: [@lekic](https://github.com/lekic)
	* Fixed issue with one-item lists not rendering correctly.
	* General code cleanup, fixed all naming conventions and coding standards to adhere to PEP8 conventions.

3. Kyle Smith: [@smithk86](https://github.com/smithk86)
    * Added thead and tbody tags to group header and content rows when creating a table from an array of objects.

Copyright and License
---------------------

	The `MIT license <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>`_

	Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Varun Malhotra

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