I am working on VBA macros to access live data from a website through API calls. I am using VBA-JSON library for it. There are mainly two scenarios when fetching data:
Scenario #1 (we can see data is a JSON array):
{
"success": true,
"data": [
{
"id": 4,
"creator_user_id": {
"id": 162,
"name": "ASD",
"email": "email id"
},
"user_id": {
"id": 787878,
"name": "XYZ",
"email": "email id"
},
...
}
]
}
In the scenario 1 I can fetch values within data array by using For Each loop in VBA Excel through VBA-JSON library.
Scenario #2:
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": 123,
"name": "ABC",
"options": [
{
"id": 119,
"label": "Name1"
},
{
"id": 120,
"label": "Name2"
}
],
"mandatory_flag": false
}
}
But in 2nd scenario I can not access data within data array, because JSON data array is within JSON object. For example I want the value of id: 120 which must return Name2, thus I want to access value of label which will return Name2.
I tried many ways, but can not get it. Please anyone can tell me how this can be done in VBA Excel?
Any help appreciated.
Using the VBA-JSON library, you can access the value you want by calling:
Set Parsed = JsonConverter.ParseJson(<yourjsonstring>)
Debug.Print Parsed("data")("options")(2)("label")
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I am trying to add a new bloc to my JSON
I have this JSON that I got after a GET :
{
"name": "John",
"age": 30,
"Deleted": false
}
What I want to do is to add a block trips to this Json using RobotFrameWOrk to get this result:
{
"name": "John",
"age": 30,
"trips": [
{
"dateTime": "2020-01-24T15:28:29.7073727Z",
"FirstName": "John",
"Comment": "TestMe"
}
],
"Deleted": false
}
My questions are:
The object Trips doesn't exist I have to create it manually
and then I should add this object to my JSON after the age and before Deleted
${JsonFinall}= Add String ${FirstJson} ${BlockTrips}
Log ${JsonFinall}
I imagine it would be something like that but I am blocked on the first step I don't know how to create and fill the object trips?
Do you think that I have to work with Regex?
Thanks for your help
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I tried with add object to json : `# Bloc ActionR
${jsonFinall}= Add Object To Json ${JsonAvecAR} Course/AR.txt`
the file AR.txt is the file where I put my object trips :
"trips": [
{
"dateTime": "2020-01-24T15:28:29.7073727Z",
"FirstName": "Alicia",
"Comment": "TestMe"
}
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I have used REST to get data from API and the format of JSON output that contains arrays. When I am trying to copy the JSON as it is using copy activity to BLOB, I am only getting first object data and the rest is ignored.
In the documentation is says we can copy JSON as is by skipping schema section on both dataset and copy activity. I followed the same and I am the getting the output as below.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/connector-rest#export-json-response-as-is
Tried copy activity without schema, using the header as first row and output files to BLOB as .json and .txt
Sample REST output:
{
"totalPages": 500,
"firstPage": true,
"lastPage": false,
"numberOfElements": 50,
"number": 0,
"totalElements": 636,
"columns": {
"dimension": {
"id": "variables/page",
"type": "string"
},
"columnIds": [
"0"
]
},
"rows": [
{
"itemId": "1234",
"value": "home",
"data": [
65
]
},
{
"itemId": "1235",
"value": "category",
"data": [
92
]
},
],
"summaryData": {
"totals": [
157
],
"col-max": [
123
],
"col-min": [
1
]
}
}
BLOB Output as the text is below: which is only first object data
totalPages,firstPage,lastPage,numberOfElements,number,totalElements
500,True,False,50,0,636
If you want to write the JSON response as is, you can use an HTTP connector. However, please note that the HTTP connector doesn't support pagination.
If you want to keep using the REST connector and to write a csv file as output, can you please specify how you want the nested objects and arrays to be written ?
In csv files, we can not write arrays. You could always use a custom activity or an azure function activity to call the REST API, parse it the way you want and write to a csv file.
Hope this helps.
I've been working with datatables and I'm able to load the datatable using getJson with strongly typed classes etc and it works just great. Until I hit one snag.
There are times I want to populate a datatable with data that "I don't know about" but I always know that it will be one row of data - it is simply a json string with dynamic content.
Now with datatables you can simply populate the table with aaData and aaCol by assigning a json string to it but my json string contains a column and data IE:
First_name:bob and so on.
A column - on Datatables would be populated with sTitle:Column1 etc and assigned to aaCol.
Does anyone know of a plug in that parses a json string into aaCol and aaData for use with datatables?
I believe you can solve your problem using this approach:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
"processing": true,
"serverSide": true,
"ajax": "scripts/objects.php",
"columns": [
{ "data": "first_name" },
{ "data": "last_name" },
{ "data": "position" },
{ "data": "office" },
{ "data": "start_date" },
{ "data": "salary" }
]
} );
} );
In the example above the dataTables uses a serverSide processing, the ajax return a object like this:
{
"draw": 1,
"recordsTotal": 57,
"recordsFiltered": 57,
"data": [
{
"first_name": "Airi",
"last_name": "Satou",
"position": "Accountant",
"office": "Tokyo",
"start_date": "28th Nov 08",
"salary": "$162,700"
}, ...
You can also set the column name using the "name" property inside the specification of each column.
You can the full example in the following link. If you need more assistance I can make a code on my own later today =)
You can check this JsFiddle to understand how to set the columns names
I'm aware of this question but I don't believe that there is no solution with standars component. I'm using Talend ESB Studio 5.4.
I have to parse a JSON string from a REST web service into multiple output, and add them to a database.
Database has two tables:
User (user_id, name, card, card_id, points)
Action (user_id, action_id, description, used_point)
My JSON Structure is something like that:
{
"users": [
{
"name": "foo",
"user_id": 1,
"card": {
"card_id": "AAA",
"points": 10
},
"actions": [
{
"action_id": 1,
"description": "buy",
"used_points": 2
},
{
"action_id": 3,
"description": "buy",
"used_points": 1
}
]
},
{
"name": "bar",
"user_id": 2,
"card": {
"card_id": "BBB",
"points": -1
},
"actions": [
{
"id": 2,
"description": "sell",
"used_point": 5
}
]
}
]
}
I have tried to add a JSON Schema Metadata but it is not clear to me how to "flat" the JSON. I have tried to look at tXMLMap, tExtractJSONFields.. but no luck till now.
I also had a look at tJavaRow but I don't understand how to make a Schema for that.
It's a pity because till now I'm loving Talend! Any advice?
You can save a json file in your disk, then create new json file in the metadata of Talend studio, the wizard retrieve the schema for you, after saving, you ca, copie schema in the generic schema of the metadata, and it's done, use that generic schema where you want, this is how to use generic schema in the tRestClient component:
Please help me in parsing this Json sample as I'm not able to parse it because of the complexity of it as well as different objects inside it. I'm able to parse Json when a list of same objects & same structure but not like the one below.
[
{
"notificationBrowserHead":
{
"notificationId": 4,
"notificationType": "NEW_PRODUCT",
"creationTime": 1421933381000,
"notificationNormalUserId": 4,
"notificationViewed": false
},
"brandIdAndNameHolder":
{
"brandId": 1,
"name": "B1"
},
"brandLogo": null,
"productIdAndNameHolder":
{
"productId": 1,
"name": "JK product1"
}
},
{
"notificationBrowserHead":
{
"notificationId": 2,
"notificationType": "USER_INT_COMMENT",
"creationTime": 1421924403000,
"notificationNormalUserId": 2,
"notificationViewed": false
},
"uploadId": 22,
"uploadThumbnail": "/mediaUrl/location/thumbNail",
"uploadDescription": "upload 1 location desc",
"notificationCreator":
{
"normalUserId": 90,
"displayName": "amit"
},
"uploadRemoved": false
},
{
"notificationBrowserHead":
{
"notificationId": 1,
"notificationType": "NEW_LOCATION_VOTE",
"creationTime": 1421924403000,
"notificationNormalUserId": 1,
"notificationViewed": false
},
"locationIdAndNameHolder":
{
"locationId": 11,
"name": "Current King JK"
},
"locationLogo": null
}
]
Any help would be truly appreciated.
I presume that you receive different set of json properties when your NotificationType varies.
Solution 1:
Define all your members(the collection of all your properties that you receive for different types of notification) in a Class and use it for DeSerialization, so that the unwanted properties for your particular notification type will be null.
Solution 2:
Parser manually. Newtonsoft json documentation here
Make class "Notifications (or something)" and put inside everything you got back from json2csharp.com site, then use this framework http://www.newtonsoft.com/json to deserialize data as you download it from server and you should be able to get notificationType by Object.Notificationbrowserhead[x].notificationType or similar.