ChatGPT implements data structure conversion

Data structure conversion

In application system development and maintenance, there is often a need for configuration data or customer data to be converted between different serialization structures. Different programming languages ​​have different preferences for data structures. For example, JavaScript generally uses JSON, Java generally uses XML, Ruby generally uses YAML, Golang generally uses TOML, and so on.

Once the old system starts to be refactored one day, there will usually be a large amount of stock data that needs to be converted. Let's take the dashboard configuration data of Splunk, the first listed company in the Nasdaq big data field, as an example. When the software was upgraded from v7 to v8, it refactored its own dashboard design and changed the configuration data structure from XML to JSON. . We can use ChatGPT to do the simple conversion of the first step. The content of the following example comes from the basic example in the official manual:

Convert the following piece of XML data to JSON format:

Basic Dashboard

Illustrate the basic structures of a dashboard

<!-- This basic dashboard has only a single panel -->
<panel>

  <table>
    <title>Top Sourcetypes (Last 24 hours)</title>

    <!-- A search powers the panel -->
    <search>
      <query>
      index=_internal | top limit=100 sourcetype | eval percent = round(percent,2)
      </query>
      <!-- Specify a time range for the search -->
      <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
      <latest>now</latest>
    </search>

    <!-- Use options to further define how to display result data -->
    <option name="wrap">true</option>
    <option name="rowNumbers">true</option>
  </table>
</panel>

ChatGPT successfully outputs the JSON format data of the corresponding content. But is it really legal? We open the JSONLint tool, copy and paste the content output by ChatGPT into the text input box of the JSONLint tool, click Verify, and see that the tool returns verification success. ChatGPT successfully completed the data structure conversion task.