Questions in JSON

Each question is specified as an entry in a JSON dictionary.

After the dictionary key to use to lookup the question comes a list containing the following…

• a short description/label to be displayed
• help text to display
• the default value
• the type specified as a string “str”, “bool” etc.
• a custom specification to modify the validation (see Validation).

The default value can use Python string formatting operators to build a value from other answers as in the join_path question below.

Note

If you’re using the terminal you can only refer to previous answers as the questions are asked in order of definition and only once.

JSON Example

{
"a_date":
    ["Select a date",
     "A date",
     null,
     "date",
     null
    ],
"a_time":
    ["Select a time",
     "A time",
     null,
     "time",
     "%H:%M:%S"
    ],
"a_color":
    ["Select a color",
     "A color",
     "#fdcbef",
     "color",
     "rgbhex"
    ],
"path":
   ["Root path",
     "Root path for the documentation",
     ".",
     "path",
     "new"
    ],
"count":
   ["Number of items",
     "How many items",
     1,
     "int",
     null
    ],
"payment":
   ["Payment per month",
     "How many items",
     1.1,
     "float",
     null
    ],
"show_all":
   ["Show everything",
     "Do you want to show every single item in the whole world",
     true,
     "bool",
     null
    ],
"show_yesno":
   ["Really everything",
     "Do you really want to show every single item in the whole world",
     false,
     "yesno",
     null
    ],
"something":
   ["A non empty field",
     "You really have to enter something",
     "a",
     "str",
     "nonempty"
    ],
"path2":
    ["Another path",
     "A second path used by the next question to join 2 together",
     "pypirc",
     "path",
     null
    ],
"join_path":
    ["Compound path",
     "Joining of path & path2",
     "{path}/{path2}",
     "path",
     null
    ]
}