Hello Everyone, Does anyone know of a way to get the a!fromJson function t

Jin Pheh

Certified Associate Developer

over 8 years ago

Hello Everyone,
Does anyone know of a way to get the a!fromJson function to respect arrays? Ie:

a!fromJson({"Values":["Alph;a","Beta","Delta"]})

will return a dictionary. When I index 'values' from the dictionary I get a single string representation of the array I started with instead of the array itself.

The problem appears to be that dictionaries themselves don't support arrays as values - for example this expression returns 1 instead of 3:
load(
local!dict: {Values: {1, 2, 3}},
length(local!dict.Values)
)

Does anyone have a way around this shortcoming?

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0 Jin Pheh
Certified Associate Developer
over 8 years ago

Thanks Kathikn, your suggestion of using the apply even though the key/value pair in the dictionary is listed as a single value instead of an array appears to work.

For anyone searching in the future:
load(
local!dict: {Values: {1, 2, 3}},
length(apply(fn!tointeger,local!dict.Values))
)
will return an array of length 1 which is consistent with the behavior in my original post. However removing the length returns an array as I had originally expected.
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0 Jin Pheh
Certified Associate Developer
over 8 years ago

Thanks Kathikn, your suggestion of using the apply even though the key/value pair in the dictionary is listed as a single value instead of an array appears to work.

For anyone searching in the future:
load(
local!dict: {Values: {1, 2, 3}},
length(apply(fn!tointeger,local!dict.Values))
)
will return an array of length 1 which is consistent with the behavior in my original post. However removing the length returns an array as I had originally expected.
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