The word ‘dictionary’ turns up in different contexts.
JSON, like .plist XML, provides two forms of composite data structuring:
- Arrays for indexed sequence
- Dictionaries (sometimes called ‘Objects’, in a JS context) for discrete clustering of key-value pairs.
( In Python documentation they keep more narrowly to the term dictionary, and “object” is heard more rarely )
You can write JSON dictionary data to a KM Dictionary:
https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Set_Dictionary_to_JSON
To quote the wiki entry above:
The Set Dictionary to JSON (v9.0+) action lets you set a Keyboard Maestro dictionary from a JSON dictionary.
and you also have a %JSONFromDictionary% token
but these two kinds of dictionary, while partially[1] isomorphic, are far from identical.
- Keyboard Maestro dictionaries consist of record clusters in an sqlite3 database table, which you could query in patterns like
SELECT dictionary, key, value FROM dictionaries - JSON, is of course, just a canonical stringification of JavaScript data structures.
Partially – KM dictionary values are always atomic – strings or numbers – whereas in JSON dictionaries, the value of a key can itself be an Array or Dictionary. The depth of nesting is not constrained. ↩︎