# Function to convert json string or python dict into ObjectWrapper

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**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/function-to-convert-json-string-or-python-dict-into-objectwrapper/32861 "2020-03-05T22:45:39Z")\
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Ah, so it is an ObjectWrapper...  
Interesting. I'm actually not sure whether we can 'fix' that; it'd be nice if `dict` was automatically recursive, but c'est la vie. We'd have to introduce a new method, which sounds pretty gross...

You could make your deep to-dict function not care about specific types by relying on the presence of Python magic methods, as in this post:

> [@\[IGN-5231\] jsonEncode issue](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/jsonencode-issue/44603/26):
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> In case others end up fighting this later and are having trouble finding the bad sub-elements of a bigger structure, this is a quick bit of debug code I put together to show the data types of a structure before passing it into jsonEncode: def type\_tree(element, prefix='/'): type\_string = str(type(element)) output\_string = '{}={}\n'.format(prefix, type\_string) if hasattr(element, '\_\_iter\_\_'): if hasattr(element, 'keys'): for key in element.keys(): …

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