Parsing is limited and won't scale long term

[remyrd]

The parsing mechanism has room for improvement.
This refers to the way the application converts items it displays (to the user) into dictionaries analogous to what's found in the databases, and vice-versa.

This is achieved by so-called mappings, which take a parameters in strings such as "{username} likes chocolate" and map them to the path within any database item. This is represented by a dot-separated string, eg. name.login.username, which in turn means the field username can be found by following the path:

{
  "name": {
    "login": {
      "username": "Bob"
    }
  }
}

This is useful for searching and to keep data structured.
Sadly, it is limited by its expressiveness. For instance, I haven't worked out how to map lists, nor investigated if there are other tools out there for this purpose.