Using a UrlFetchapp request, I retrieve data in json format in a sheet sheet, for non-table objects the processing is not that hard, but when it comes to tables it's a little less Easy,
I retrieve and display the label content in 4 columns in my sheets sheet by browsing the array object "feezeInformationList" then "feezeTypeCode" then "label", outside the "feezeInformationList" object we find additional data to the label, which is present in another array object, which is "glcfeezeInclusionInformationList", the complementary data is boolean and it is "glcfeezeIsIncludedInPrice" next to each column label, I would like to retrieve the true or false status of each label using maybe as input , the code attribute, here for example "2282".
"data": [
{
"glcfeezeInclusionInformationList": [
{
"feezeTypeCode": {
"code": "2282",
"description": "",
"label": "MMG"
},
"glcfeezeIsIncludedInPrice": true
}
feezeInformationList [
"feezeTypeCode": {
"code": "2282",
"description": "",
"label": "MMG"
},
]
Any help would be appreciated! thanks
I am using Google Sheets API to display the data from my Google Spreadsheet in my javascript application. Have developed by refering this documentation. I could able to read the values from my spreadsheet but for some of the columns the cells are merged as below.
I am getting the Json response as
[
[
"Name",
"Age"
],
[
"John",
"25"
],
[
"Doe"
],
]
My expected output should be
[
[
"Name",
"Age"
],
[
"John",
"25"
],
[
"Doe",
"25"
],
]
Any help ?
To retrieve the value, you have to test if the cell is part of a merged area.
var value = (cell.isPartOfMerge() ? cell.getMergedRanges()[0].getCell(1,1) : cell).getValue();
Modify the script as following
appendPre('Name, Major:');
var lastData=''
for (i = 0; i < range.values.length; i++) {
var row = range.values[i];
if (row[4]!=''){lastData=row[4]}
// Print columns A and lastData, which correspond to indices 0 and the last known value in column E that contains merged cells.
appendPre(row[0] + ', ' + lastData);
}
so that you will recall the last value if the cell is empty
The keys and values are separated in the Json object that I get from an api call. I have tried finding a solution It looks like the following:
{
"range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values":
[
"DeptID",
"DeptDescr",
"VP Area",
"VP Descr",
"HR Category",
"Employee Relations1",
"ER1Title",
"ER1Phone",
"ER1Email",
"Employee Relations2",
"ER2Title",
"ER2Phone",
"ER2Email",
"Compensation1",
"Comp1Title",
"Comp1Phone",
"Comp1Email",
"Compensation2",
"Comp2Title",
"Comp2Phone",
"Comp2Email",
"Employment1",
"E1Title",
"E1Phone",
"E1Email",
"Employment2",
"E2Title",
"E2Phone",
"E2Email",
"Employee Pay Services1",
"EPS1Title",
"EPS1Phone",
"EPS1Email",
"Employee Pay Services2",
"EPS2Title",
"EPS2Phone",
"EPS2Email"
],
[
"20734",
"Academic Success Centers",
"VES",
"VP Enroll Mgmt & Student Aff",
"Administrative",
"Brian Schmidt",
" Employee Relations Consultant",
"(928)523-6139",
"Brian.Schmidt#nau.edu",
"Marcia Warden",
"Assistant Director, Employee Relations",
"(928)523-9624",
"Marcia.Warden#nau.edu",
"Nicole Christian",
"Employment & Compensation Analyst",
"(928)523-6127",
" Nicole.Christian#nau.edu",
"Cathy Speirs",
"Associate Director",
"(928)523-6136",
"Cathy.Speirs#nau.edu",
"Nicole Christian",
"Employment & Compensation Analyst",
"(928)523-6127",
" Nicole.Christian#nau.edu",
"Cathy Speirs",
"Associate Director",
"(928)523-6136",
"Cathy.Speirs#nau.edu",
"Katherine Kurpierz",
"Payroll Specialist",
"(928)523-6129",
"Katherine.Kurpierz#nau.edu",
"Cheryl Brothers",
"Assistant Director - HR Payroll Services",
"(928)523-6085",
"Cheryl.Brothers#nau.edu"
], etc.
But I need it to look like:
[
{
"DeptID": 20734,
"DeptDescr": "Academic Success Centers",
"VP Area": "VES",
"VP Descr": "VP Enroll Mgmt & Student Aff",
"HR Category": "Administrative",
"Employee Relations1": "Brian Schmidt",
"Employee Relations2": "Marcia Warden",
"Compensation1": "Nicole Christian",
"Compensation2": "Cathy Speirs",
"Employment1": "Nicole Christian",
"Employment3": "Cathy Speirs",
"Employee Pay Services1": "Katherine Kurpierz",
"Employee Pay Services2": "Cheryl Brothers"
},etc
I am trying to use the data to populate a drop down using javascript and ajax. Any help is really appreciated.
The object your API returns is not a valid JSON. Was that API made by you or can you get that fixed somehow?
There are 2 things you could do to make it work
-One is change it to return exactly what you want;
-Two is to fix what it returns so that it is a valid JSON;
Going for what is wrong with the file you initially posted, let's remove the contents of the arrays so it's easier to spot the problem:
Your original data looks roughly like this:
{ "range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": [],[]
}
To be valid you would need it to look like this:
{ "range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": {
"keys": [],
"data": [],
}
}
Notice that I wrapped the two arrays of "values" with { } because it has to be an object if you want it to contain two arrays in it.
Then I gave each array a key with which you can call them. With that you'd be able to get what you want from your "values", so that for each item in the "keys" array you have something in that "data" array.
Hope this helps.
Well let's have a look;
Suppose this is a short version of the response data you got:
var res = `
{
"range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": [
"DeptID",
"DeptDescr",
"VP Area"
],
[
"20734",
"Academic Success Centers",
"VES"
],
[
"345543",
"Academic Fails Centers",
"OK"
]
}
`;
As we can see by the first data, looks like a dump from a spreadsheet of sorts, and someone maybe scripted a way to export this data in a JSON-ish way. The values "Array" are the rows of this "spreadsheet".
We will clean it up, and get only the chunks that looks like ["value", "another value", "etc"]
// clean tabs and returns
res = res.replace(/\t/g, '').replace(/\n/g, '');
// get the array-ish chunks
rows = res.match(/\[(((["'])(?:(?=(\\?))\4.)*?\3),*)+\]/gm)
now let's make them real arrays:
var data = rows.map(function (row) {
return JSON.parse(row);
});
Now we have an array of arrays of strings. that means, an array of "rows" that contains the values of the "cells". The first one looks like the header row (the one with the names of the fields)
Lets make objects using each row of data except the first one. The first will serve us as the keys (we match the position (index) of the value from rows[n] from the value on rows[0] to get a key-value pair)
// Here we will define an object to store data
var data_object = { values: [] };
// for each row except the first
for(var i = 1; i < data.length; i++) {
var my_data = {};
//for each element of this row
for(var j = 0; j < data[i].length; j++) {
my_data[data[0][j]] = data[i][j];
}
data_object.values.push(my_data);
}
We have our object, let's suppose you need it in JSON format now:
var json_data = JSON.stringify(data_object);
// let's look what we have here
console.log('json_data:', json_data);
We will look at something like this as a result:
json_data: {"values":[{"DeptID":"20734","DeptDescr":"Academic Success Centers","VP Area":"VES"},{"DeptID":"345543","DeptDescr":"Academic Fails Centers","VP Area":"OK"}]}
NOW A WARNING:
This is what you DON'T want to do if you can fix the API you are getting this data from first. If any inconsistency appears, things will break. and in this example i'm not managing any edge case or exception, neither checking boundaries of arrays or wrapping things in try-catch blocks.
I am new to Javascript and trying to convert data that I am getting from mongodb into multi dimension array like example below. If this could have been simple conversion of values in straight array than this could have been done using for loop but not sure how multi dimension array conversion can be done?
Please help.
[
{
"text": "p",
"count": 26
},
{
"text": "ne",
"count": 5
},
{
"text": "n",
"count": 69
}
]
Need multi dimension array like below:
[["p",26],["ne",5],["n",69]]
You can put the array through Array.protoype.map, which replaces each value in the array with whatever the callback function returns. In the callback function you can return an array version of the object.
For example:
var result = yourArray.map(function (item) {
return [item.text, item.count];
});
More array methods can be found on the MDN docs for Arrays.
I'm attempting to create a stacked bar chart with Dimple.JS and D3. However, the JSON file I wish to use with this particular visualization involves nested JSON objects (below). The stacked bar chart I wish to create has the channel category as its x-axis, with the y axis to be the aggregate count of the different locations (with each location as a 'stack'). Here is the original data:
[{
"channel": "politics",
"locations":
[{
"name":"usa",
"count" : 1454
},
{
"name":"mexico",
"count":3543
},
{
"name":"antarctica",
"count":4352
}]
},
{
"channel": "economics",
"locations":
[{
"name":"usa",
"count" : 12431
},
{
"name":"mexico",
"count":314
},
{
"name":"china",
"count":2321
}]
}]
I've flattened the above into the JSON below, but I am having trouble using Dimple's .addSeries() method to create the stack.
[
{
"channel": "politics",
"locations[0].name": "usa",
"locations[0].count": 1454,
"locations[1].name": "mexico",
"locations[1].count": 3543,
"locations[2].name": "antarctica",
"locations[2].count": 4352
},
{
"channel": "economics",
"locations[0].name": "usa",
"locations[0].count": 12431,
"locations[1].name": "mexico",
"locations[1].count": 314,
"locations[2].name": "china",
"locations[2].count": 2321
}
]
My question is this: how can Dimple support either this data encoded in this particular JSON file? Most samples use CSV and TSV files, but I unfortunately have the limit of using only JSON files.
Dimple can't use nested data. You'll have to flatten it on the client side so there's a single JSON object for each intersection of channel/location. Here's an example of how to do that with Underscore.js :
var chartData = _.chain(data)
.map(function(row, index){
// for each original row, return a new row for each location
return _.map(row.locations, function(location){
return {
'channel' : row.channel,
'name' : location.name,
'count' : location.count
};
});
})
.flatten()
.value();
(For every row in the original data set, it will return three rows, one for each location. This will return an array of nested arrays, so it calls flatten to make the whole array 1 level deep.)
Here's a jsBin showing that in action : http://jsbin.com/nuvihu/edit?html,js,output
(output):
If this helps, here is what the data ended up looking like :
[{"channel":"politics","name":"usa","count":1454},{"channel":"politics","name":"mexico","count":3543},{"channel":"politics","name":"antarctica","count":4352},{"channel":"economics","name":"usa","count":12431},{"channel":"economics","name":"mexico","count":314},{"channel":"economics","name":"china","count":2321}]