How to flatten a js array on Play using JSON transformers? - json

Question

I have a Json of the following format:
{
"user": {
"id": "1",
"name": "Some User",
"permGroups": [
{
"id": "group1",
"name": "Group 1",
"actions": [
{
"id": "action1",
"name": "Action 1"
}
]
},
{
"id": "group2",
"name": "Group 2",
"actions": [
{
"id": "action2",
"name": "Action 2"
},
{
"id": "action3",
"name": "Action 3"
}
]
}
]
},
"title": "New Role",
"role_id": "56fea66c"
}
How can I make a JSON Transformer in Play! 2.1, that will turn that into:
{
"name": "New Role",
"id" : "56fea66c",
"permGroupIds": ["group1","group2"]
"actions": ["action1", "action2", "action3"]
}
I have this working so far:
import play.api.libs.json._
import play.api.libs.functional.syntax._
import play.api.libs.json.Reads._
val jsonStr = """{"user":{"id":"1","name":"Some User","permGroups":[{"id":"group1","name":"Group 1","actions":[{"id":"action1","name":"Action 1"}]},{"id":"group2","name":"Group 2","actions":[{"id":"action3","name":"Action 3"},{"id":"action3","name":"Action 3"}]}]},"title":"New Role","role_id":"56fea66c"}"""
val jsonVal = Json.parse(jsonStr)
val jsonTransformer = (
(__ \ 'name).json.copyFrom((__ \ 'title).json.pick) and
(__ \ 'id).json.copyFrom((__ \ 'role_id).json.pick)
).reduce
jsonVal.transform(jsonTransformer)
this produces:
{
"name": "New Role",
"id" : "56fea66c",
}

Answer 1

Here is one way to do it. This will ignore any perm groups or actions that don't have an id.
import play.api.libs.json._
import play.api.libs.json.Reads._
import play.api.libs.functional.syntax._
val jsonStr = """{"user":{"id":"1","name":"Some User","permGroups":[{"id":"group1","name":"Group 1","actions":[{"id":"action1","name":"Action 1"}]},{"id":"group2","name":"Group 2","actions":[{"id":"action3","name":"Action 3"},{"id":"action3","name":"Action 3"}]}]},"title":"New Role","role_id":"56fea66c"}"""
val jsonTransformer = (
(__ \ 'name).json.copyFrom((__ \ 'user \ 'name).json.pick) and
(__ \ 'id).json.copyFrom((__ \ 'role_id).json.pick) and
(__ \ 'permGroupIds).json.copyFrom((__ \ 'user \ 'permGroups).read[List[JsObject]].map(permGroups =>
JsArray(permGroups.flatMap(permGroup => (permGroup \ "id").toOption))
)) and
(__ \ 'actions).json.copyFrom((__ \ 'user \ 'permGroups).read[List[JsObject]].map(permGroups =>
JsArray(permGroups.flatMap(permGroup => (permGroup \ "actions").asOpt[JsArray]).flatMap(_ \\ "id"))
))
).reduce
val transformed = Json.parse(jsonStr).transform(jsonTransformer)
Json.prettyPrint(transformed.get)
This produces
{
"name" : "Some User",
"id" : "56fea66c",
"permGroupIds" : [ "group1", "group2" ],
"actions" : [ "action1", "action3", "action3" ]
}