Help needed on parsing dict. data
Hello everyone.
I'm trying to receive some NASA data via their API using maxurl. So far so good, I can get the data I want. But I'm struggling to get some of the dict content. I get all keys of my subDict with a getkeys message but when I send the message "get close_approach_data::close_approach_date_full" I have the error "dict: no dictionary named close_approach_data, cannot get value" even if I got the key from a "getkeys" message.
I think I'm getting confused on dict data format : some are arrays, some are dictionaries, other are just messages.
So my basic question is : what am I doing wrong here ?
Thanks in advance for your time :)
Hello MATHIEU
Try this approach:
I hope this solves the problem (it works for me) ;-)
It's an old JS script, I wrote for myself. The script converts the entire contents of the dict into series of messages that it names appropriately - you can filter out unnecessary ones or modify the script to suit your needs (it's old, so it still requires some polishing).
Hello Yaniki,
Thanks for you message ! Then fun thing is that your parser was already in my patch haha ! But I was looking for a more convienient approch with only max objects. It's also an opportunity to learn something new ! I'm sure there is a workaround without parsing all dict data as individual messages. But if there are not, your parser will be my saver, so thanks !
EDIT : the main problem with your solution is also the fact that the whole dict path is concatenated as one symbol, then only the value is a second list item. I'm sure I can use the new strings object to work around that without using lots of sprintf objects or js, but I'm also still not familiar with them. I'll have a look.
Yep, this parser is circulating between people - well... - parsing data from [maxurl]. It seems like no one likes it or wants (including me), but it's quite hard to replace it. But it's possible, I suppose.