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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def read(self):
 """ Read the whole JSON input into a pandas object. """

        if self.lines and self.chunksize:
            obj = concat(self)
        elif self.lines:

            data = to_str(self.data)
            obj = self._get_object_parser(
                self._combine_lines(data.split('\n'))
            )
        else:
            obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
        self.close()
        return obj