diff combineJSON.py @ 0:116510205617 draft

planemo upload commit dd7f4dc22bbe2f26aafd07a345997db79d9e5ad1

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/combineJSON.py	Wed Mar 07 11:39:06 2018 -0500
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+
+
+def init_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="combineJSON",
+        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
+        description="Combine JSON data arrays into a single array")
+    parser.add_argument('-i',
+                        nargs='*',
+                        help="Input JSON files to be combined")
+    parser.add_argument('-o',
+                        help='Output file name')
+    return parser
+
+
+parser = init_parser()
+args = parser.parse_args()
+input_files = args.i
+json_file = []
+
+if input_files is None or len(input_files) < 2:
+    print('Not enough input files. '
+          'Please use -i filename.txt filename1.txt '
+          'to combine JSON data files')
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+
+for file_path in input_files:
+    try:
+        # Attempt to open each input file, parse as JSON
+        with open(file_path, 'r') as curr_file:
+            file_data = curr_file.read()
+            parsed_json_file = json.loads(file_data)
+            # Append each valid JSON data array
+            for entry in parsed_json_file:
+                json_file.append(entry)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("Help! I can't parse this file {}. "
+              "Are you sure this is a valid JSON file?"
+              .format(file_path))
+        raise(e)
+
+if args.o:
+    with open(args.o, 'w') as out_json:
+        json.dump(json_file, out_json)
+else:
+    print(json.dumps(json_file))