Test if two json dicts are equal.

jsonequals.py

def _get_json_iterator(json):
    if isinstance(json, dict):
        return json.keys()
    elif isinstance(json, list):
        return range(len(json))
    else:
        raise Exception()

def is_json_equal(json_a, json_b):
    if json_a is json_b:
        return True

    if json_a is None or json_b is None:
        return False

    b_contains_a = False


    for key in _get_json_iterator(json_a):
        if key not in json_b:
            break

        value_a = json_a[key]
        value_b = json_b[key]

        if type(value_a) is not type(value_b):
            break

        if isinstance(value_a, (dict, list)) and not is_json_equal(value_a, value_b):
            break
        elif value_a != value_b:
            break
    else:
        # only executes if break is not executed
        b_contains_a = True

    # we recurrsivly checked if all keys in json_a are in json_b
    # as well as recurrsivly check the values of those keys.
    # we need to check that json_b doesn't have extra keys
    a_contains_b = False

    if b_contains_a: # be lazy
        for key in _get_json_iterator(json_b):
            if key not in json_a:
                break
        else:
            # only executes if break is not executed
            a_contains_b = True

    return b_contains_a and a_contains_b