Import a .json file to redis db via redis-py

Question

Say I have this json code

{"employees":[
    {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},
    {"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},
    {"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"}
]}

How could I store it to a redisdb via redis-py?

My code is the following (I believe it's wrong):

import json
import redis
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=1)
with open('json_test.json', encoding='utf-8') as data_file:
    test_data = json.loads(data_file.read())
r.hmset('test_json', test_data)

Answer 1

Considering your code, and simplicity of requirement: Store JSON file content on redis, your can use simple SET for it.

To improve data parsing, it is not necessary to use .read() method over file pointer, consequently, you use json.load(fp) method version.

import json
import redis
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=1)
with open('json_test.json') as data_file:
    test_data = json.load(data_file)
r.set('test_json', test_data)