📅 2023-05-22 — Session: Enhanced JSON handling and Mapbox API integration
🕒 05:30–07:15
🏷️ Labels: Python, JSON, Mapbox, API, Debugging, Automation
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The primary goal of this session was to improve JSON file handling and integrate Mapbox API functionalities using Python.
Key Activities
- Fixed a syntax error in Python code related to f-strings for JSON file handling.
- Developed and modified functions to manipulate JSON style objects, including replacing text field basenames and text opacity zoom values.
- Updated style data with edited layers in JSON, and demonstrated storing and updating Mapbox style information.
- Addressed API token scope requirements and handled common API errors such as 400 and 422 status codes.
- Created and updated Mapbox styles using Python, ensuring JSON structure adherence and correct token scopes.
- Provided code snippets for listing and filtering dictionary items in Python, and refactored code for efficiency.
Achievements
- Successfully corrected Python code for JSON manipulation, enhancing automation and data processing capabilities.
- Integrated Mapbox API with Python, enabling style management and error handling.
- Improved understanding of JSON structures and API requirements, facilitating better software development practices.