Hello,
I have this json input, and some values might be empty. How can I filter the json so it only contains values that are not empty?
{
"job_position_id": 34534,
"first_name": "dfd",
"last_name": "dfd",
"email": "dfdf",
"recruiting_channel_id": 34343,
"application_date": "01.01.2023",
"phase": {
"type": "system",
"id": "343"
},
"files": null,
"attributes": [
{
"id": "custom_attribute_3577048",
"value": "dfdf"
},
{
"id": "custom_attribute_3577049",
"value": "dff"
},
{
"id": "custom_attribute_3569071",
"value": "01.01.2034"
},
{
"id": "custom_attribute_3569072",
"value": "dfdf"
},
{
"id": "custom_attribute_3569073",
"value": "01.01.2034"
},
{
"id": "custom_attribute_3569074",
"value": "23232dff"
}
]
}
thanks in advance.
Best
Masa
Welcome to the Make community!
What do you mean by “some values might be empty”?
Hey @samliew,
like for example this value might be null or just empty
"recruiting_channel_id": null,
or
"recruiting_channel_id": ,
In this case I don’t want it to appear in the JSON input so I want to filter it out.
I tried to do that with an if-statement but it is not very helpful becaue some commas might be too much or some might be missing so I was looking for antoher solution.
Welcome to the Make community!
You can use a Text Parser “Replace” module with this Pattern (regular expression):
\s*"[\w_]+": (?:null|""|\[\s*\]),?(?=\n)
Proof https://regex101.com/r/pgXhtB
Important Info
Global match must be set to YES!
For more information, see the Text Parser page in the Make Help Center:
Match Pattern
The Match pattern module enables you to find and extract string elements matching a search pattern from a given text. The search pattern is a regular expression, which is a sequence of characters in which each character is either a metacharacter, having a special meaning, or a regular character that has a literal meaning.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.
@samliew
Thanks a lot for you answer.
I tried it that way, but it didn’t work:
Did I do everything correct?
Your pattern did not follow the exact pattern I provided above.
You need to put the special variable emptystring in the replace field.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
@samliew, Thank you so much!
Now, I have an issue with the structure of the file value. How can I remove empty arrays inside it?
No problem, glad I could help!
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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
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