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arvindnsn
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7 years ago
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Trying to flatten the hierarchical json

Hello, Below is the JSON output from a REST API source. I am trying to flatten the hierarchical JSON structure using the splitter snap. I am able to flatten “meals” attribute, but unable to split the “credentials”. The expected output should be all the attributes should be column names.

{
“object”: “list”,
“data”: [
{
“id”: “locid”,
“object”: “locname”,
“group_id”: “grp_id”,
“name”: “name1”,
“active”: 1,
“count”: 2,
“timezone”: “xxxx”,
“week_end”: “Wednesday”,
“sales_tax”: 0.0825,
“schedule_start”: “”,
“schedule_stop”: “”,
“type”: “xxxx”,
“meals”: [
{
“name”: “breakfast”,
“end”: “10:30”
},
{
“name”: “lunch”,
“end”: “15:00”
}
],
“credentials”: {
“str_id”: “999999”,
“str_id_2”: “2222”
}
}

  • tstack's avatar
    tstack
    7 years ago

    You’ll need to add some element to the meal list when it’s empty in order to get the splitter to do anything. Maybe add an empty object (i.e. {}) or null.

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  • Schevus's avatar
    Schevus
    New Contributor III

    You can use a Structure snap to flatten a JSON object. You can’t use Splitter on credentials because it’s not an array.

    • arvindnsn's avatar
      arvindnsn
      Contributor

      I tried the structure snap and is giving me the same result where i am not able to split the “credentials” as it is not an array. Not sure what i am doing wrong.

  • tstack's avatar
    tstack
    Former Employee

    Can you export and attach the pipeline that you have so far so that we can see the configuration of the splitter snap?