Yes, I think you will need to know the schema of the JSON files to be able to import them in a useful way.. For example, Jupyter notebooks are JSON files, but your files are probably very different. Leo can import XML files, but they are imported into a single Leo node.
On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 10:26:06 AM UTC-5 Josef wrote: > I'll have a look. All I wanted to do for now is edit some already existing > JSON files. > > I think all the @auto should always behave essentially the same way, > and that means for me that I can use it to read in any arbitrary file, > not just one that was created by Leo. > > I was using @clean already, but was hoping the @auto would be able to > represent the JSON structure in the outline somehow. > I realize this is hardly possible, because Leo can't know what to write > into the headlines, or even to which level of nodes to go. > > I guess I will need write a custom importer for this, since I need to edit > (some large) JSON files quite often. > > On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 11:05:36 PM UTC+1 Edward K. Ream wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:40 AM Josef <joe...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >>> import with at_auto afile.json fails: the body remains empty, at least >>> when the top level entity is an object (e.g. a pair of curly braces). For >>> example this fails: >> >> >> The problem you are having could be called a confusing result of >> featuritis. If all you want to do is represent json in an outline, you can >> just use @clean x.json. >> >> @auto x.json or (alternatively) @auto-json x.txt creates a json >> representation of the outline, complete with a representation of gnx's, >> uA's, etc. To see this in action, create the original file with @auto >> x.json, write the external file, and take a look at the result. >> >> HTH. Please feel free to ask more questions. >> >> Edward >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/99c82dc5-4753-4ef1-85b9-e9ce4dae4e79n%40googlegroups.com.
