I know I am missing something, but have been trying to get this going for a while with no luck. I am doing an API call to BambooHR, which returns the following:
What I want to do is search for a match on the name field and return the value of id. I have tried using map with no success. Any help appreciated.
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Hello! Welcome to the Make Community!
The format BambooHR returns is complex because it’s not an array but a list of collections with different names (corresponding to the IDs).
What you need to do is to use the toArray() function on the “body”. Once it’s done, you will get an array with a Key (that will have the value of the ID), and a collection called “value” with all the data you need.
From here, you have 2 options, depending on what you want to achieve:
1- if you want to get the id (key) for which name is exactly a string, you can use the map function.
2- if you want something more sophisticated, you can use the Iterator and then Aggregators and filters on the bundles.
For option 1, it could look like this
toArray function
map function (I did from a sample I built)
Result
I hope it helps
Benjamin
