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Quickly Minify and Beautify JSON Content
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import json
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtCore import QSize, QPoint, Qt
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QLabel, QWidget, QDesktopWidget, QHBoxLayout, QVBoxLayout, qApp, \
QPlainTextEdit, QPushButton
def json_copy(txtEdit):
txtEdit.selectAll()
txtEdit.copy()
class JsonCycleWindow(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
QMainWindow.__init__(self)
self.setMinimumSize(QSize(200, 400))
self.setWindowTitle("Json Cycle")
centralWidget = QWidget(self)
self.setCentralWidget(centralWidget)
gridLayout = QHBoxLayout(self)
centralWidget.setLayout(gridLayout)
self.jsonMini = QPlainTextEdit(self)
self.jsonBeauti = QPlainTextEdit(self)
btnMinify = QPushButton("Minify")
btnBeautify = QPushButton("Beautify")
btnMinify.clicked.connect(lambda: self.minify_json_content())
btnBeautify.clicked.connect(lambda: self.beautify_json_content())
minifyLayout = QVBoxLayout(self)
minifyLayout.addWidget(QLabel("Minified JSON"))
minifyLayout.addWidget(self.jsonMini)
minifyLayout.addWidget(btnBeautify)
beautifyLayout = QVBoxLayout(self)
beautifyLayout.addWidget(QLabel("Beautified JSON"))
beautifyLayout.addWidget(self.jsonBeauti)
beautifyLayout.addWidget(btnMinify)
gridLayout.addLayout(minifyLayout)
gridLayout.addLayout(beautifyLayout)
def minify_json_content(self):
y = json.loads(self.jsonBeauti.toPlainText())
self.jsonMini.setPlainText(json.dumps(y, separators=(',', ':')))
json_copy(self.jsonMini)
def beautify_json_content(self):
y = json.loads(self.jsonMini.toPlainText())
self.jsonBeauti.setPlainText(json.dumps(y, indent=4))
json_copy(self.jsonBeauti)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
mainWin = JsonCycleWindow()
mainWin.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
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For cycling between formats for text formatting in reports

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