how to get the entity information in the json format

[ashi7upt]

How can I extract additional information from a parsed file in JSON format using the entity.get_info() command without causing new columns to be added to the data frame and without encountering a "Maximum recursion level reached" error when using it within an Azure Function?

[aothms]

That's a very specific question with constraints we can't fully comprehend.

"without causing new columns to be added to the data frame"

which data frame?

without encountering a "Maximum recursion level reached" error

what triggers the error, how do you call that, on which data?

[ashi7upt]

I am posting the code
entity_data = []

    for entity in entities:
        entity_dict = {
            "Entity Type": entity.is_a(),
            "name": find_name_map(entity),
            "GlobalId" : entity.GlobalId,
            **entity.get_info(),
            "Parentltid": rel_map.get(entity.GlobalId, None),
            "Properties": find_properties_map(entity),
            "Quantities": find_quantities_map(entity)
        }

        entity_data.append(entity_dict)

    df = pd.DataFrame(entity_data)

[aothms]

And do you have a stack trace of the recursion depth? Because it's hard to tell which of these functions overflows the stack.

By definition **entity.get_info(), will give you "new columns" (I guess that's what you mean) because of the simple fact that you ingest arbitrary attributes from the IFC schema.

[ashi7upt]

That is true. Is it possible for me to get that data in JSON format?
rest of the functions are working fine.

[aothms]

entity.get_info(recursive=True) will give you nested dictionaries of pure python objects that you feed to json.dumps()