[FIXED] How to create array of JSON objects with multiple values?

Issue

I tried using an append to create a new array. However, either the created function returns an array with several objects and not an object with several values.

Code->

def parse_json(self, data):
    file = 'vault.json'
    json = {}
    for obj in data:
        if 'EMAIL' in obj[0]:
            json.setdefault('EMAIL', []).append({obj[0]: obj[1]})
        if 'TEST' in obj[0]:
            json.setdefault('TEST', []).append({obj[0]: obj[1]})
        else:
            json.setdefault('VAULT', []).append({obj[0]: obj[1]})

    with open(file, 'w') as f:
        dump(json, f, indent=2, separators=(',', ':'))

Response ->

{
  "EMAIL":[
     {"EMAIL_CC":""},
     {"EMAIL_CCO":""},
     {"EMAIL_DESTINY":"teste@gmail.com"}
   ]
}

Desired answer ->

{
  "EMAIL":{
    "EMAIL_CC":"",
    "EMAIL_CCO":"",
    "EMAIL_DESTINY":"teste@gmail.com"
  }
}

Solution

In python, the curly brackets { } are used for dictionaries, which are similar to javascript objects (which sounds like what you're familiar with). The hard brackets [ ] are called lists. Your desired response looks like a dictionary with a key that has a dictionary as its value. Unfortunately, you can't add key-value pairs into a list or array in python, so you should instead make another dictionary instead of a list or rethink what your desired list would look like (perhaps only the values and not the keys).

TL;DR: you are appending dictionaries to your list: .append({obj[0]: obj[1]})
{obj[0]: obj[1]} is a dictionary you are appending to the list. In python you can have a list of dictionaries but you cant have just key-value pairs in a list

Answered By - jros

Answer Checked By - Willingham (PHPFixing Volunteer)