docs:templating:json

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Template

A Json template is a native template:

that is a valid Json text document
that may contain variables in the form Json in its properties key and/or value.
that will respect the tree structure (There is no need to add extra processing logic such as loop)
that produces a json data resource.

Howto

Tabulify HowTo - How to create JSON file(s) from Tabular data with a JSON template

Example: catalog of item

The variable name should match the name of a column of the source.

{
  "${group}": {
    "${item_code}": {
      "price": "${price}",
      "description": "${description}"
    }
  }
}

where:

group,
item_code,
price
and description

are the column names of the input and:

${group}},
${item_code},
${price}
and ${description}

are the respective template variables