Merge JSON

Version: 1.0.0

Category: Process

Extended Category: JSON

Action Package: Standard Actions

Description

Merge values from all session objects into one JSON array.

Supports SESSION and GLOBAL parameters.

Source Types

• any: Will accept any mix of types. First it will try to parse the value as JSON and if it fails fall back to treating it as a string
• json: Will parse the value as an JSON value (JSON Object or JSON Array)
• string: Will parse the value as a string (JSON String)
• number: Will parse the value as a number (JSON number)
• boolean: Will parse the value as a boolean (JSON boolean)

Use Cases

Example 1: Merge two JSON objects

Two simplified session objects (represented as JSON):

• {“source”:”{\”id\”: 1}”}
• {“source”:”{\”id\”: 2}”}

The first session object will after execution the first session object will look like this:

{
  "source":"{\"id\": 1}",
  "target":"[{\"id\":1},{\"id\":2}]"
}

Example 2: Merge two strings

Two simplified session objects (represented as JSON):

• {“source”:”value 1″}
• {“source”:”value 2″}

The first session object will after execution the first session object will look like this:

{
  "source":"value 1",
  "target":"[\"value 1\",\"value 2\"]"
}

Example 3: Merge JSON with failure

Two simplified session objects (represented as JSON):

• {“source”:”{\”id\”: 1}”}
• {“source”:”not json”}

The first session object will after execution the session objects will look like this:

• {
  “source”:”{\”id\”: 1}”,
  “target”:”[{\”id\”:1}]”,
  “fail”: “Not every session object was successful”
  }
• {
  “source”:”not json”,
  “fail”: “Could not process value in session attribute ‘source'”
  }