How to output an array to a comma-deliniated string? - csv

I have an array called device, which looks like this (simplified):
label : "Device 1",
exhibits : [{
item : 1,
desc : "This is a sample"
},{
item : 2,
desc : "This is another sample"
},{
item : 3,
desc : "This is a third"
}]
I'm trying to print exhibits neatly for a PDF, so I'm thinking comma-deliniated like this:
1, 2, 3
This is my code:
<cfloop array="#device.exhibits#" index="exhibit">
#exhibit.item#
</cfloop>
But I get this:
123
Yes, I could manually figure out if there should be commas or not, but is there a better way to do this?

Since you're using CF11+, you can use the ArrayMap function with an ArrayList to turn the array into a list.
exhibits.map( function(i) { return i.item ; } ).toList() ;
With your example array, it gives you "1,2,3".
In another of my answers, I stepped through handling empty elements. Since this is an array of structs, I don't know if this would be a problem. How are you getting this data for your exhibits array?
EDIT:
exhibits.map( function(i) { return i.item ; } )
.filter( function(j) { return len(j) ; } )
.toList() ;
will return the list with empty elements removed.
EDIT 2:
Per the question by #TravisHeeter, if you prefer lambda expressions or arrow functions, you can use them in Lucee 5.
exhibits.map( (i) => i.item ).filter( (j) => len(j) ).toList()
https://trycf.com/gist/907a68127ddb704611b191d494aa94ce/lucee5?theme=monokai

The usual approach is to extract the data first:
<!--- extract the itemNumber of every exhibit --->
<cfset itemNumberList = []>
<cfloop array="#device.exhibits#" index="exhibit">
<cfset itemNumberList.add(exhibit.itemNumber)>
</cfloop>
And then we transform the extracted data to a comma-separated list (string):
<cfset itemNumberList = arrayToList(itemNumberList, ", ")>
<!--- 1, 2, 3 --->
<cfoutput>#itemNumberList#</cfoutput>
Array-mapping (see Shawn's answer) is a more fancy (readable?) way.

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Is there a way to randomize the jsonPath array number in get[] myJson?

I have a list of values that I can use for the title field in my json request. I would like to store a function in the common.feature file which randomizes the title value when a scenario is executed.
I have attempted using the random number function provided on the commonly needed utilities tab on the readme. I have generated a random number successfully, the next step would be using that randomly gernerated number within the jsonpath line in order to retrieve a value from my data list which is in json.
* def myJson =
"""
{
"title" : {
"type" : "string",
"enum" : [
"MR",
"MRS",
"MS",
"MISS"
[...]
]
}
}
"""
* def randomNumber = random(3)
* def title = get[0] myJson.title.enum
* print title```
The code above works but I would like to randomize the number within the get[0]. How is this possible in Karate?
I'm not sure of what you want, but can't you just replace 0 by randomNumber in get[randomNumber] myJson.title.enum ?

How to convert Mnesia query results to a JSON'able list?

I am trying to use JSX to convert a list of tuples to a JSON object.
The list items are based on a record definition:
-record(player, {index, name, description}).
and looks like this:
[
{player,1,"John Doe","Hey there"},
{player,2,"Max Payne","I am here"}
]
The query function looks like this:
select_all() ->
SelectAllFunction =
fun() ->
qlc:eval(qlc:q(
[Player ||
Player <- mnesia:table(player)
]
))
end,
mnesia:transaction(SelectAllFunction).
What's the proper way to make it convertable to a JSON knowing that I have a schema of the record used and knowing the structure of tuples?
You'll have to convert the record into a term that jsx can encode to JSON correctly. Assuming you want an array of objects in the JSON for the list of player records, you'll have to either convert each player to a map or list of tuples. You'll also have to convert the strings to binaries or else jsx will encode it to a list of integers. Here's some sample code:
-record(player, {index, name, description}).
player_to_json_encodable(#player{index = Index, name = Name, description = Description}) ->
[{index, Index}, {name, list_to_binary(Name)}, {description, list_to_binary(Description)}].
go() ->
Players = [
{player, 1, "John Doe", "Hey there"},
% the following is just some sugar for a tuple like above
#player{index = 2, name = "Max Payne", description = "I am here"}
],
JSON = jsx:encode(lists:map(fun player_to_json_encodable/1, Players)),
io:format("~s~n", [JSON]).
Test:
1> r:go().
[{"index":1,"name":"John Doe","description":"Hey there"},{"index":2,"name":"Max Payne","description":"I am here"}]

How to use ransack to search MySQL JSON array in Rails 5

Rails 5 now support native JSON data type in MySQL, so if I have a column data that contains an array: ["a", "b", "c"], and I want to search if this column contains values, so basically I would like to have something like: data_json_cont: ["b"]. So can this query be built using ransack ?
Well I found quite some way to do this with Arrays(not sure about json contains for hash in mysq). First include this code in your active record model:
self.columns.select{|column| column.type == :json}.each do |column|
ransacker "#{column.name}_json_contains".to_sym,
args: [:parent, :ransacker_args] do |parent, args|
query_parts = args.map do |val|
"JSON_CONTAINS(#{column.name}, '#{val.to_json}')"
end
query = query_parts.join(" * ")
Arel.sql(query)
end
end
Then assuming you have class Shirt with column size, then you can do the following:
search = Shirt.ransack(
c: [{
a: {
'0' => {
name: 'size_json_contains',
ransacker_args: ["L", "XL"]
}
},
p: 'eq',
v: [1]
}]
)
search.result
It works as follows: It checks that the array stored in the json column contains all elements of the asked array, by getting the result of each json contains alone, then multiplying them all, and comparing them to arel predicate eq with 1 :) You can do the same with OR, by using bitwise OR instead of multiplication.

Counting occurrences of a list item from a list?

(See edit at the bottom of this post)
I'm making a program in Elixir that counts the types of HTML tags from a list of tags that I've already obtained. This means that the key should be the tag and the value should be the count.
e.g. in the following sample file
<html><head><body><sometag><sometag><sometag2><sometag>
My output should be something like the following:
html: 1
head: 1
body: 1
sometag: 3
sometag2: 1
Here is my code:
def tags(page) do
taglist = Regex.scan(~r/<[a-zA-Z0-9]+/, page)
dict = Map.new()
Enum.map(taglist, fn(x) ->
tag = String.to_atom(hd(x))
Map.put_new(dict, tag, 1)
end)
end
I know I should be probably using Enum.each instead but when I do that my dictionary ends up just being empty instead of incorrect.
With Enum.map, this is the output I receive:
iex(15)> A3.test
[%{"<html" => 1}, %{"<body" => 1}, %{"<p" => 1}, %{"<a" => 1}, %{"<p" => 1},
%{"<a" => 1}, %{"<p" => 1}, %{"<a" => 1}, %{"<p" => 1}, %{"<a" => 1}]
As you can see, there are duplicate entries and it's turned into a list of dictionaries. For now I'm not even trying to get the count working, so long as the dictionary doesn't duplicate entries (which is why the value is always just "1").
Thanks for any help.
EDIT: ------------------
Okay so I figured out that I need to use Enum.reduce
The following code produces the output I'm looking for (for now):
def tags(page) do
rawTagList = Regex.scan(~r/<[a-zA-Z0-9]+/, page)
tagList = Enum.map(rawTagList, fn(tag) -> String.to_atom(hd(tag)) end)
Enum.reduce(tagList, %{}, fn(tag, acc) ->
Map.put_new(acc, tag, 1)
end)
end
Output:
%{"<a": 1, "<body": 1, "<html": 1, "<p": 1}
Now I have to complete the challenge of actually counting the tags as I go...If anyone can offer any insight on that I'd be grateful!
First of all, it is not the best idea to parse html with regexes. See this question for more details (especially the accepted answer).
Secondly, you are trying to write imperative code in functional language (this is about first version of your code). Variables in Elixir are immutable. dict will always be an empty map. Enum.map takes a list and always returns new list of the same length with all elements transformed. Your transformation function takes an empty map and puts one key-value pair into it.
As a result you get a list with one element maps. The line:
Map.put_new(dict, tag, 1)
doesn't update dict in place, but creates new one using old one, which is empty. In your example it is exactly the same as:
%{tag => 1}
You have couple of options to do it differently. Closest approach would be to use Enum.reduce. It takes a list, an initial accumulator and a function elem, acc -> new_acc.
taglist
|> Enum.reduce(%{}, fn(tag, acc) -> Map.update(acc, tag, 1, &(&1 + 1)) end)
It looks a little bit complicated, because there are couple of nice syntactic sugars. taglist |> Enum.reduce(%{}, fun) is the same as Enum.reduce(taglist, %{}, fun). &(&1 + 1) is shorthand for fn(counter) -> counter + 1 end.
Map.update takes four arguments: a map to update, key to update, initial value if key doesn't exist and a function that does something with the key if it exists.
So, those two lines of code do this:
iterate over list Enum.reduce
starting with empty map %{}
take current element and map fn(tag, acc) and either:
if key doesn't exist insert 1
if it exists increment it by one &(&1 + 1)

Regular expression to extract a JSON array

I'm trying to use a PCRE regular expression to extract some JSON. I'm using a version of MariaDB which does not have JSON functions but does have REGEX functions.
My string is:
{"device_types":["smartphone"],"isps":["a","B"],"network_types":[],"countries":[],"category":["Jebb","Bush"],"carriers":[],"exclude_carriers":[]}
I want to grab the contents of category. I'd like a matching group that contains 2 items, Jebb and Bush (or however many items are in the array).
I've tried this pattern but it only matches the first occurrence: /(?<=category":\[).([^"]*).*?(?=\])/g
Does this match your needs? It should match the category array regardless of its size.
"category":(\[.*?\])
regex101 example
JSON not a regular language. Since it allows arbitrary embedding of balanced delimiters, it must be at least context-free.
For example, consider an array of arrays of arrays:
[ [ [ 1, 2], [2, 3] ] , [ [ 3, 4], [ 4, 5] ] ]
Clearly you couldn't parse that with true regular expressions.
See This Topic:
Regex for parsing single key: values out of JSON in Javascript
Maybe Helpful for you.
Using a set of non-capturing group you can extract a predefined json array
regex answer: (?:\"category\":)(?:\[)(.*)(?:\"\])
That expression extract "category":["Jebb","Bush"], so access the first group
to extract the array, sample java code:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(?:\"category\":)(?:\\[)(.*)(?:\"\\])");
String body = "{\"device_types\":[\"smartphone\"],\"isps\":[\"a\",\"B\"],\"network_types\":[],\"countries\":[],\"category\":[\"Jebb\",\"Bush\"],\"carriers\":[],\"exclude_carriers\":[]}";
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(body);
assertThat(matcher.find(), is(true));
String[] categories = matcher.group(1).replaceAll("\"","").split(",");
assertThat(categories.length, is(2));
assertThat(categories[0], is("Jebb"));
assertThat(categories[1], is("Bush"));
There are many ways. One sloppy way to do it is /([A-Z])\w+/g
Please try it on your console like
var data = '{"device_types":["smartphone"],"isps":["a","B"],"network_types":[],"countries":[],"category":["Jebb","Bush"],"carriers":[],"exclude_carriers":[]}',
res = [];
data.match(/([A-Z])\w+/g); // ["Jebb", "Bush"]
OK the above was pretty sloppy however a solid single regex solution to extract every single element regardless of the number, one by one and to place them in an array (res) is the following...
var rex = /[",]+(\w*)(?=[",\w]*"],"carriers)/g,
str = '{"device_types":["smartphone"],"isps":["a","B"],"network_types":[],"countries":[],"category":["Jebb","Bush","Donald","Trump"],"carriers":[],"exclude_carriers":[]}',
arr = [],
res = [];
while ((arr = rex.exec(str)) !== null) {
res.push(arr[1]); // <- ["Jebb", "Bush", "Donald", "Trump"]
}
Check it out # http://regexr.com/3d4ee
OK lets do it. I have come up with a devilish idea. If JS had look-behinds this could have been done simply by reversing the applied logic in the previous example where i had used a look-forward. Alas, there aren't... So i decided to turn the world the other way around. Check this out.
String.prototype.reverse = function(){
return this.split("").reverse().join("");
};
var rex = /[",]+(\w*)(?=[",\w]*"\[:"yrogetac)/g,
str = '{"device_types":["smartphone"],"isps":["a","B"],"network_types":[],"countries":[],"category":["Jebb","Bush","Donald","Trump"],"carriers":[],"exclude_carriers":[]}',
rev = str.reverse();
arr = [],
res = [];
while ((arr = rex.exec(rev)) !== null) {
res.push(arr[1].reverse()); // <- ["Trump", "Donald", "Bush", "Jebb"]
}
res.reverse(); // <- ["Jebb", "Bush", "Donald", "Trump"]
Just use your console to confirm.
In c++ you can do it like this
bool foundmatch = false;
try {
std::regex re("\"([a-zA-Z]+)\"*.:*.\\[[^\\]\r\n]+\\]");
foundmatch = std::regex_search(subject, re);
} catch (std::regex_error& e) {
// Syntax error in the regular expression
}
If the number of items in the array is limited (and manageable), you could define it with a finite number of optional items. Like this one with a maximum of 5 items:
"category":\["([^"]*)"(?:,"([^"]*)"(?:,"([^"]*)"(?:,"([^"]*)"(?:,"([^"]*)")?)?)?)?
regex101 example here.
Regards.