Json compare tool for Views and Tags?

[Chris_Bingham]

Here's a link to another post showing the method I use (that thread has a few more elegant options to suit their needs as well):

Json Diffing Discussion

My implementation of a dictionary & list deepSort() recursive function: *Edit: Keys within dictionaries (and values within lists) are not 'sorted' (alphabetically & numerically ascending) but does appear to organize keys/values of two UDTs in the same order. Hmmm.... def deepSort(obj, ignoreKeys=[]): # Beta if isinstance(obj, list): result = [] for value in sorted(obj): if hasattr(value, '__iter__'): result.append(deepSort(value)) else: result.append(value) return result …

My procedure is as follows:

• From Script Console:
  • Get tag configs (see code from thread above)
  • Sort tag configs (see code from thread above)
  • Copy output of both configs (see code from thread above) to Notepad++, with each config in a different file/tab.
• For each file, within Notepad++:
  • Using JSTool Add-on: JSFormat (Pretty-print JSON - even if it's not valid JSON)
  • Change Language back to None (from Language menu - basically, ignore all of the errors that the JSON interpreter throws)
• Then, using Compare Add-on:
  • While File 1 is active, select "Set as First to Compare".
  • While File 2 is active, select "Compare".

A sample output is also in that thread, except, the comparison was not from a system.tag.getConfiguration() output.

That deepSort() function could probably be enhanced to utilize an OrderedDict, but has suited my needs so far.