Json-to-db NPM

json-to-mysql

Easily convert your json file into mysql database tables. Features supported are 1. Table Creation 2. Table Alteration/Synchronization for Columns 3. Foreign Keys 4. UUID support for Primary and Foreign Keys 5. Arrays supported 6. Special Count column for arrays 7. Specify start import from specific object

Installation

npm i --save json-to-db

Required Parameters

These can be passed as environment variables or be placed in a .env file and make use of dotenv package to load them.

SYNCHRONIZE=true/false (whether to update the database tables, little slower since it checks schema before every insert)
PARENT=glossary.GlossDiv (Feature# 7)
DB_NAME=db name
DB_HOST=db host
DB_PORT=db port
DB_USER=user
DB_PASSWORD=password

Sample Usage

const j = require('json-to-db')
require('dotenv').config()
j.processFile('file.json')

Few Samples

file2.json

{
  "glossary": {
    "title": "example glossary",
    "GlossDiv": {
      "title": "S",
      "GlossList": {
        "GlossEntry": {
          "ID": "SGML",
          "SortAs": "SGML",
          "GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
          "Acronym": "SGML",
          "Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
          "GlossDef": {
            "para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",
            "GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
          },
          "GlossSee": "markup"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Generated Schema

Add

file5.json

{
  "menu": {
    "id": "file",
    "value": "File",
    "popup": {
      "menuitem": [{
          "value": "New",
          "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"
        }, {
          "value": "Open",
          "onclick": "OpenDoc()"
        }, {
          "value": "Close",
          "onclick": "CloseDoc()"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}