Is there something wrong with this json reference?

Question

I'm trying to take some JSON containing references and resolve them. I'm using the jsonref library to do it. I have reduced my problem to these two cases:

import jsonref

print(jsonref.JsonRef.replace_refs(jsonref.loads('''
{
  "foo": {
    "$ref": "#/def/bar"
  },
  "def": {
      "bar": "baz"
  }
}
''')))
# works: {'foo': 'baz', 'def': {'bar': 'baz'}}

print(jsonref.JsonRef.replace_refs(jsonref.loads('''
{
  "foo": {
    "$ref": "#/def/obj"
  },
  "def": {
    "obj": {
      "bar": "baz"
    }
  }
}
''')))
# expected: {'foo': { 'bar': 'baz'}, 'def': {'bar': 'baz'}}
# actual: AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'get'

The first one works, but the second one throws an error. Why?

Answer 1

You mean something like this ?

>>> import jsonref
>>> s = '''
... {
...   "foo": {
...     "$ref": "#/def/obj"
...   },
...   "def": {
...     "obj": {
...       "bar": "baz"
...     }
...   }
... }
... '''
>>> j = jsonref.loads(s)
>>> j
{u'foo': {u'bar': u'baz'}, u'def': {u'obj': {u'bar': u'baz'}}}
>>> 

NB : never used jsonref, didn't even read the doc (!!!) so I can't tell why you get this error, but there's certainly something about the correct way to use it in the doc. But obviously (from a 30s test), jsonref.loads() already applies references replacements and jsonref.JsonRef.replace_refs() is only meant to be used on already unserialized objects, ie:

>>> s = '''
... {
...   "foo": {
...     "$ref": "#/def/obj"
...   },
...   "def": {
...     "obj": {
...       "bar": "baz"
...     }
...   }
... }
... '''
>>> import json
>>> decoded = json.loads(s) # so we get a plain python dict
>>> print(decoded)
{u'foo': {u'$ref': u'#/def/obj'}, u'def': {u'obj': {u'bar': u'baz'}}}
>>> final = jsonref.JsonRef.replace_refs(decoded)
>>> print(final)
{u'foo': {u'bar': u'baz'}, u'def': {u'obj': {u'bar': u'baz'}}}