JOLT Transform accept element or array of elements

April 5, 2024

The API that I’m using is returning an array of elements or a single element, see INPUT_1 and INPUT_2. I need a spec that could handle both inputs and return the same output, see below examples.

Is this something possible? Am I asking too much?

I have INPUT_1:

{
  "rating": [
    {
      "primary-value": 3,
      "id": 1
    },
    {
      "quality-value": 3,
      "id": 2
    }
  ]
}

SPEC:

[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "rating": {
        "*": {
          "*": "out[&1].fields.&"
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

OUTPUT_1:

{
  "out": [
    {
      "fields": {
        "primary-value": 3,
        "id": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "fields": {
        "quality-value": 3,
        "id": 2
      }
    }
  ]
}

If I have:
INPUT_2:

{
  "rating": {
    "primary-value": 3,
    "id": 1
  }
}

SPEC_2:

[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "rating": {
        "*": "out[0].fields.&"
      }
    }
  }
]

Desired OUTPUT_2:

{
  "out": [
    {
      "fields": {
        "primary-value": 3,
        "id": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

>Solution :

You can manage it by applying toList function within a modify spec before using shift spec such as

[
  {
    "operation": "modify-overwrite-beta",
    "spec": {
      "*": "=toList"
    }
  },
  { // nests the inputs of type input_2
    // while it doesn't have any impact for the inputs of type input_2
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "rating": {
        "*": {
          "*": "out[&1].fields.&"
        }
      }
    }
  }
]