Recursive function to create hierarchical JSON object?

Question

I\'m just not a good enough computer scientist to figure this out by myself :(

I have an API that returns JSON responses that look like this:

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Answer 1

You could use this (a more compact and readable version)

def get_child_nodes(node_id):   
    request = urllib2.Request(ROOT_URL + node_id)
    response = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(request).read())
    return {
       "id":response['id'],
       "name":response['name'],
       "children":map(lambda childId: get_child_nodes(childId), response['childNode'])
    }

get_child_nodes(ROOT_NODE)