How to handle json output when it's not a list of messages

[okuuva]

I'm wondering if helpers.from_json can handle nested output where the output contains metadata along with the list of messages and the messages themselves contain objects, such as with prospector:

{
  "summary": {
    "started": "2022-05-29 13:51:42.435756",
    "libraries": [],
    "strictness": "from profile",
    "profiles": ".prospector.yml, no_doc_warnings, no_member_warnings, no_test_warnings, strictness_medium, strictness_high, strictness_veryhigh",
    "tools": [
      "mypy",
      "pep8",
      "profile-validator",
      "pyflakes",
      "pylint"
    ],
    "message_count": 1,
    "completed": "2022-05-29 13:51:45.395426",
    "time_taken": "2.96",
    "formatter": "json"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "source": "pylint",
      "code": "protected-access",
      "location": {
        "path": "example/api.py",
        "module": "example.api",
        "function": "example_function",
        "line": 32,
        "character": 25
      },
      "message": "Access to a protected member _d_ of an example class"
    }
  ]
}

[jose-elias-alvarez]

If I understand correctly, you should be able to follow an approach like what we used here to pass a different key as the "main" JSON object.

[okuuva]

Yup, that would do it. The additional location object in the message objects makes parsing this with the helper clunky but such is life.