Azure Advanced Config to Local appsettings.json

azureConfig2Local.py

import json

def empty_lines_input(prompt='> ', n_lines=2):
    'An `input` with `n_lines` empty line ending.'

    all_input_strings = ''

    # prompt the user for input
    given_input = input(prompt)
    all_input_strings += given_input
    # and handle the two newline ending                                                                                                           
    while n_lines>0:
        # if previous input is not empty prompt again
        given_input = input('')
        all_input_strings += '\n' + given_input
        # check if it was an empty line
        if not given_input:
            n_lines -= 1
        else:
            n_lines = 2

    return all_input_strings


contents = empty_lines_input('paste azure json config and hit return 3x when done: ')
serializedContents = json.loads(contents)

kvp = dict()
for item in serializedContents:
    kvp[item['name']] = item['value']

print("Appsettings: ")
print("==========================================================")
print(json.dumps(kvp, indent=1, separators=(',', ': ')))