Rewriting url in htaccess not quite sure how to do it - .htaccess

Question

Hey guys i'm trying to convert url which looks like this
example.com/sometype/author-name/sort-date
or
example.com/sometype/author-name/sort-date/something-value/
Just need a generic solution.
I'm pretty new to this and a little weak at regular expressions.
So what i could write was this to identify
sometype/author-name/sort-date/
or
sometype/author-name/sort-date/something-value/
/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ ([a-zA-Z0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9]+)
I want to rewrite this into this format
example.come?data={"par1":"sometype","author":"name","sort":"date","something":"vale"}
or
example.come?data={"par1":"sometype","author":"name","sort":"date"}

Answer 1

First understand what you're asking is very unusual and extremely tricky for mod_rewrite. Not only it required recursion based code but also this code won't be very readable.
With that cautionary note enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## If the request is for a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
## If the request is for a valid file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
## If the request is for a valid link
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
## don't do anything
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)(.*?)/?$ $1\",\"$2$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^-]+)-([^,]+)(.*)$ $1\":\"$2$3 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /?data={\"part1\":\"$1\"} [L]