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travis_pendleto
New Contributor II
6 years ago

After using a JSON splitter and a filter, how do you put the object/array back together?

Hi, we needed to filter on a JSON input. We managed to get that working by using a JSON splitter on the element and then piping that to a filter snap. Our issue is now the input that looked like th...
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tstack
Former Employee
6 years ago

I think the GroupByN snap will do what you want. If you set the “Group Size” to zero, it will collect all of the input documents.

Another approach would be to use the expression language. You could call the filter() method on the array with a callback function that checks the condition. For example, if you wanted to filter the array by the state property, you could do something like this:

$allLocations.location.filter(elem => elem.state == "US-TX")
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travis_pendleto
New Contributor II
6 years ago

Thanks! I’ll give that a try!