How to use JSON as your souce of data for interfaces?

Question

We are executing a proof of concept of a simple workflow using APPIAN. To keep it simple and to implement faster we do not want to use any API calls / databases. We have our sample data available in json files. 
 Is there a way to read data from json files to populate the data on interfaces easily?

Pedro Simões · Answer

Hi Balaji, 
 You can leverage the Text File Reader plugin ( https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/text-file-reader) for reading your JSON files. Consider the below code for doing it. Once you have a dictionary, you can cast to a CDT your interface might be expecting to receive as an input. 
 a!fromJson(
{
 fn!readtextfromfile(YOUR_DOCUMENT, true())
}
)