Understanding JSON Templatization with Recursion for Dynamic Data Handling

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a fundamental component of modern web development. Its simplicity and readability have made it a universal data interchange format, used across a wide range of industries and applications. The straightforward structure of JSON, which is both human-readable and machine-parseable, has contributed to its widespread adoption. However, while JSON's structure is generally simple, adding templates to JSON data introduces a level of complexity that can be challenging to manage. The main difficulty lies in JSON's hierarchical and nested nature, which makes it difficult to determine the depth of the structure and when to stop parsing. At Keploy , an open-source testing platform, we encountered this challenge while developing our templatization feature , which is crucial for our test automation tool. Our primary goal was to enhance the rerecord feature —a function that allows users to rerecord a particular test set. Users had been experiencing issues ...