Deprecation Notice

This Pre-Built has been deprecated as of 01-15-2024 and will be end of life on 01-15-2025. The capabilities of this Pre-Built have been replaced by the IAP - Data Manipulation

Parse Numbers Within Objects

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation Prerequisites
• How to Install
• How to Run
• Attributes
• Examples
• Additional Information

Overview

This JST allows IAP users to convert strings and strings within objects to numbers. Since the JST uses the JavaScript function parseFloat to perform this type of conversion, conversion of strings with floating point numbers is also supported in addition to integers. The supported input types are: string, object and array. For arrays and objects, the JST will convert strings in the first level only (at this time, recursion is not yet supported by JST), all other levels will remain as is. In the case of an object or an array of objects, users can choose to specify the key-value pairs to be converted in all elements of the array. If not specified, all key-value pairs will attempt to be converted. Please note, if an invalid (non-number) string is passed to the JST, the JST will return the string as is without attempting the conversion rather than erroring out.

Installation Prerequisites

Users must satisfy the following prerequisites:

• Itential Automation Platform : ^2022.1

How to Install

To install the Pre-Built:

• Verify you are running a supported version of the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) as listed above in the Prerequisites section.
• The Pre-Built can be installed from within App-Admin_Essential. Simply search for the name of your desired Pre-Built and click the install button.

How to Run

Use the following to run the Pre-Built:

1. Once the JST is installed as outlined in the How to Install section above, navigate to the section in your workflow where you would like to convert a string to an object and add a JSON Transformation task.

2. Inside the Transformation task, search for and select parseNumberWithinObject (the name of the internal JST).

3. After selecting the task, the transformation dialog will display.

4. The inputs to the JST would be the data that needs to be converted and the keys to be converted if the data is an object or an array of objects.

5. Save your input and the task is ready to run inside of IAP.

Attributes

Attributes for the Pre-Built are outlined in the following tables.

Input

Output

Examples

The following examples describe how the Pre-Built will work for different inputs.

Example 1

Input: string

{
  "keysToConvert": [],
  "data": "32.23"
}

Output

32.23

Example 2

Input: array

{
  "keysToConvert": [],
  "data": [12, true, "32.23", "banana", ["43"], "35"]
}

Output

[
  12,
  true,
  32.23,
  "banana",
  ["43"],
  35
]

Example 3

Input: object with empty keysToConvert

{
  "keysToConvert": [],
  "data": {
    "fruit": "apple",
    "quantity": "30",
    "price": "4",
    "aisle": "23"
  }
}

Output

{
  "fruit": "apple",
  "quantity": 30,
  "price": 4,
  "aisle": 23
}

Example 4

Input: object with non-empty keysToConvert

{
  "keysToConvert": ["price","aisle"],
  "data": {
    "fruit": "apple",
    "quantity": "30",
    "price": "42.2",
    "aisle": "23b"
  }
}

Output

{
  "fruit": "apple",
  "quantity": "30",
  "price": 42.2,
  "aisle": "23b"
}

Example 5

Input: array of objects with non-empty keysToConvert

{
  "keysToConvert": ["quantity","aisle"],
  "data": [
    {
      "fruit": "apple",
      "quantity": "30",
      "price": "42.2",
      "aisle": "23b"
    },
    {
      "fruit": "banana",
      "quantity": "89",
      "price": "10.1",
      "aisle": "23a"
    },
    {
      "fruit": "pineapple",
      "quantity": "32",
      "price": "20",
      "aisle": "21"
    }
  ]
}

Output

[
  {
    "fruit": "apple",
    "quantity": 30,
    "price": "42.2",
    "aisle": "23b"
  },
  {
    "fruit": "banana",
    "quantity": 89,
    "price": "10.1",
    "aisle": "23a"
  },
  {
    "fruit": "pineapple",
    "quantity": 32,
    "price": "20",
    "aisle": 21
  }
]

Example 6

Input: array of objects with empty keysToConvert

{
  "keysToConvert": [],
  "data": [
    {
      "FILE_SYSTEM": "net/node0_RP0_CPU0/harddisk",
      "TOTAL_SIZE": "17538482176",
      "TOTAL_FREE": "14333425152"
    },
    {
      "FILE_SYSTEM": "net/node0_RP1_CPU0/harddisk",
      "TOTAL_SIZE": "17538482175",
      "TOTAL_FREE": "44222222"
    }
  ]
}

Output

[
  {
    "FILE_SYSTEM": "net/node0_RP0_CPU0/harddisk",
    "TOTAL_SIZE": 17538482176,
    "TOTAL_FREE": 14333425152
  },
  {
    "FILE_SYSTEM": "net/node0_RP1_CPU0/harddisk",
    "TOTAL_SIZE": 17538482175,
    "TOTAL_FREE": 44222222
  }
]

Additional Information

Please use your Itential Customer Success account if you need support when using this Pre-Built Transformation.