java - How do I transform an array using Jolt?

Question

I am getting a null value for my transformed object when trying to convert something like this:

{   
  "employees": [
    { "f_name" : "tom", "l_name" : "smith" },
    { "f_name" : "don", "l_name" : "jones" }
  ]
}

to this:

{
  "employees": [
    { "firstName" : "tom", "lastName" : "smith" },
    { "firstName" : "don", "lastName" : "jones" }
  ]
}

This is the spec I am using:

[
  {
    "operation" : "shift",
    "spec" : {
      "employees" : {
        "f_name" : "firstName",
        "l_name" : "lastName"
      }
   }
 ]

This is the code I am using:

List<Object> chainrSpecJSON = JsonUtils.classpathToList("path/spec.json");
Chainr chainr = Chainr.fromSpec(chainrSpecJSON);
Object inputJSON = JsonUtils.classpathToObject("path/input.json");

Object transformed = chainr.transform(inputJSON);
System.out.println(transformed);

I was able to successfully transform the following input with the same spec and code as above:

{   
  "employees": 
    { "firstName" : "tom", "lastName" : "smith" }
}

So what do I need to do to transform an array of employee objects?

Answer 1

This spec does what you want

[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "employees": {
        "*": {
          "f_name": "employees[&1].firstName",
          "l_name": "employees[&1].lastName"
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

The key thing is you need to use a "*" to loop thru all the elements of the employees array, then when you recurse / match down to f_name and l_name, you need to reference the index array using [&1], which means look up the tree two levels, zero then one, and use that as an index array in the output.