Table definiton and lookup based on sensor

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I am developing a heater controller and the end goal is to set a numeric state helper to a value
based on an interpolated value from a table.
Is there any easy way of defining a table in home assistant and then picking a value from that based on a sensor value?

I have seen the file sensor

It is not exactly what I want… but I am thinking about something like this (not interpolation just taking closest value)

sensor:
  - platform: file
    name: Percentage
    file_path: /home/user/.homeassistant/sensor.json
    value_template: '{{value_json[min(value_json, key=lambda a:abs(a-the_independent_variable))] }}'
    unit_of_measurement: "%"

but could I use the “the_independent_variable” in the file sensor definition like this?

json is looking something like this:

{1:23,2:27,4:35, 9:42, 25:65}

Please tell me that there must be a better way?

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