Feb 4, 2021

Jolt transform both fields required

Jolt is a JSON to JSON transformation library where the transform is defined in JSON. As an example you may want to transform the latitude and longitude fields into a location object containing those fields.

Transform
[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "latitude":"location.latitude",
      "longitude": "location.longitude"              
    }
  }
]
Input
{
  "latitude": "41.2565",
  "longitude": "-95.9345"
}
Output
{
  "location": {
    "latitude": "41.2565",
    "longitude": "-95.9345"
  }
}

Sometimes you only want to transform two fields if both values are present. A location isn’t really a location if it only has a latitude or a longitude. In that case you can nest the transform like this.

Both Required Transform
[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "latitude": {
        "@(1,longitude)": {
          "@(2,latitude)": "location.latitude",
          "@(2,longitude)": "location.longitude"
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

What’s going on here? Well we are mapping the latitude to a block of transform. That transform maps “@(1, longitude)” –go up a level and get the longitude field– to another block that maps up two levels to latitude and up two levels to longitude to the “location.latitude” and “location.longitude” respectively. Now we are only mapping the data if both latitude and longitude exist!

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Scott is a Senior Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience using Java, and 5 years experience in technical leadership positions. His strengths include troubleshooting and problem solving abilities, excellent repertoire with customers and management, and verbal and written communication. He develops code across the entire technology stack including database, application, and user interface.

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  1. Scott Bock says:

    See full code example with test at https://github.com/scottbock/Jolt

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