Eric - I take note of your voluminous, prior contributions to this project
(via your website) and even more deeply thank you. I shall attempt this
solution.
Best regards,
--- > Q < ---
On Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 1:37:09 AM UTC, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 3:33:22 PM UTC-8, Qalisto wrote:
>>
>> At bottom is a snippet from a JSON file that I would save me enormous
>> time IF it could be imported and mapped to produce corresponding Tiddlers.
>>
>> {"Name":"ADVERTISING
>> FUNCTIONS","ForgottenDateTime":"2019-11-20T19:45:53.6458499","ACType":0,"Kind":1,"TagIds":[],"ThoughtIconInfo":"1::0:False:False:0","CreationDateTime":"2019-10-26T21:10:22.0864411","ModificationDateTime":"2019-10-26T21:10:22.0864411","SyncUpdateDateTime":"2019-11-20T19:45:53.6458499","SyncSentId":"028f89c1-aca5-4226-adae-5b099d24f04b","BrainId":"f5516898-0911-4776-8ecf-6bf2d2c570e0","Id":"2341913d-d9e5-451d-b924-388c906c13a0"}
>> {"Name":"Sibling Level
>> 1","ActivationDateTime":"2019-11-05T18:36:39.8630936","ACType":0,"Kind":1,"TagIds":[],"ThoughtIconInfo":"1::0:True:False:0","CreationDateTime":"2019-10-25T19:36:21.9749708","ModificationDateTime":"2019-10-25T19:36:22.677055","SyncSentId":"028f89c1-aca5-4226-adae-5b099d24f04b","BrainId":"f5516898-0911-4776-8ecf-6bf2d2c570e0","Id":"23cabe36-0588-402f-b823-5abb3e6930f8"}
>>
>> {"Name":"w13","ActivationDateTime":"2017-03-17T19:35:38.51","LinksModificationDateTime":"2017-03-17T19:35:38.966","ACType":0,"Kind":4,"TagIds":[],"ThoughtIconInfo":"8::0:False:False:0","CreationDateTime":"2019-11-20T20:54:37.7004436","ModificationDateTime":"2019-11-20T20:54:37.7004436","SyncUpdateDateTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00","BrainId":"f5516898-0911-4776-8ecf-6bf2d2c570e0","Id":"24fbb913-79ab-58ba-aa2f-ee0594634a92"}
>>
>> {"Name":"w36","ActivationDateTime":"2017-12-01T14:55:29.4455678","LinksModificationDateTime":"2016-09-12T17:44:26.52","ACType":0,"Kind":4,"TagIds":[],"ThoughtIconInfo":"8::0:False:False:0","CreationDateTime":"2019-11-20T20:54:37.6256425","ModificationDateTime":"2019-11-20T20:54:37.6256425","SyncUpdateDateTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00","BrainId":"f5516898-0911-4776-8ecf-6bf2d2c570e0","Id":"2798aa5e-933b-5a4e-abc6-76e388f81b53"}
>>
>
> Although it is very difficult to visually interpret the "slab of data" you
> posted, a quick visual scan seems to indicate that your example shows 4
> json objects, each of which is just a simple set of name/value pairs,
> without any "nesting" of objects within those values.
>
> To confirm this, I "pretty printed one of your example objects, just by
> manually adding newlines after each comma as well as before/after the
> opening and closing curly braces:
>
> {
> "Name":"ADVERTISING FUNCTIONS",
> "ForgottenDateTime":"2019-11-20T19:45:53.6458499",
> "ACType":0,
> "Kind":1,
> "TagIds":[],
> "ThoughtIconInfo":"1::0:False:False:0",
> "CreationDateTime":"2019-10-26T21:10:22.0864411",
> "ModificationDateTime":"2019-10-26T21:10:22.0864411",
> "SyncUpdateDateTime":"2019-11-20T19:45:53.6458499",
> "SyncSentId":"028f89c1-aca5-4226-adae-5b099d24f04b",
> "BrainId":"f5516898-0911-4776-8ecf-6bf2d2c570e0",
> "Id":"2341913d-d9e5-451d-b924-388c906c13a0"
> }
>
> I then manually copied and pasted one of the object (without "pretty
> printing" it first) into a tiddler, and used the value of the "Name" item
> as the tiddler's "title" field, and set the value of the tiddler's "type"
> field to "application/json".
>
> Having done this, I can then easily refer to any item within the JSON
> object simply by using standard TiddlyWiki syntax:
> {{nameOfTiddler##itemname}}.
>
> For example, writing
> {{ADVERTISING FUNCTIONS##BrainId}}
> in a tiddler results in the display of
> f5516898-0911-4776-8ecf-6bf2d2c570e0
> just as you would hope.
>
> To make this even easier, if you first create separate files for each
> record, each with the format:
> title: nameOfTiddler
> type: application/json
>
> one record of your data pasted here
>
> You can then just drag-and-drop those files en-masse onto any open
> tiddlywiki, and the built in "$:/Import" interface will be shown with each
> file listed as a tiddler to import. Pressing the "import" button will then
> create all the desired tiddlers in one fell swoop.
>
> While there are some relatively simple "data gymnastics" needed, it seems
> that the overall answer to your question is a resounding "YES!". I leave
> it up to you to figure out the best process for your needs.
>
> enjoy,
> -e
> Eric Shulman
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>
>
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