CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby
neversnow1
neversnow1

Reputation: 89

Parsing a JSON file without JSON.parse()

This is my first time using Ruby. I'm writing an application that parses data and performs some calculations based on it, the source of which is a JSON file. I'm aware I can use JSON.parse() here but I'm trying to write my program so that it will work with other sources of data. Is there a clear cut way of doing this? Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 145

Answers (1)

spickermann
spickermann

Reputation: 107117

When your source file is JSON then use JSON.parse. Do not implement a JSON parser on your own. If the source file is a CSV, then use the CSV class.

When your application should be able to read multiple different formats then just add one Reader class for each data type, like JSONReader, CSVReader, etc. And then decide depending on the file extension which reader to use to read the file.

Upvotes: 2

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