Support top-level arrays in the json post-processor for webpage data sources | Archive

Guy_Davies · 2014-07-07T00:00:00Z

We have a location that returns JSON data, and have written a webpage datasource to parse this.The JSON data is returned as an array in the top-level, not an object, which as per RFC 4627 is valid JSON. The current JSON post-processor appears to have no way of dealing with this.A sample of something that works and something that doesn\'t may help to illustrate the problem:If the data returned from my webpage was this, and I wished to access the \'value\' element of the first item, it would be no problem:{ \'\'array_of_data\'\': [ { \'\'name\'\': \'\'name1\'\', \'\'value\'\': 123}, { \'\'name\'\': \'\'name2\'\', \'\'value\'\': 234 } ] }To parse out the value 123 from this, I would use array_of_data[0].value in the post-processor fieldHowever, my data actually just looks like this: [ { \'\'name\'\': \'\'name1\'\', \'\'value\'\': 123}, { \'\'name\'\': \'\'name2\'\', \'\'value\'\': 234 } ] So the array is at the top level. There appears to be no way of referring to this in the post-processor field. I have tried [0].value but to no avail. And as the outer array has no name, there is no name to refer to it by.It would be great if we could use jq-like ( http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ) filters or have some other way of extracting this information.Thanks!

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