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Logic App bypass Null in filter query

I am building a Logic App that uses the Azure Resource connector to obtain a list of my resources. I would then like to filter the results to Microsoft.Compute resources that have a tag name and value of stop and normal.
Here is a snippet of resource that I receive back without any filters
{
"id": "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/Env1/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/MyVM1",
"name": "MyVM1",
"type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines",
"location": "westeurope",
"tags": {
"stop": "normal"
}
},
{
"id": "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/LogicApp/providers/Microsoft.Logic/workflows/DWSize-Check",
"name": "DWSize-Check",
"type": "Microsoft.Logic/workflows",
"location": "westeurope",
"tags": {}
}
As you can see, the bottom resource does not contain any tags, as with many others that will appear in the list
I use the standard Compose Filter Array connector to try and filter out from the value I receive back.
Here is the code that I wish to use for the filter command:
#and(contains(item()?['id'], '/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/'), contains(item()?['tags'], variables('TagName')), contains(item()?['tags'], variables('TagValue')))
variables('TagName') and variables('TagValue') will be stop and normal, as show in the example tags listed in my results snippet.
However, because there is no tag values listed in other resources, such as Microsoft.Logic/workflows, I receive the following null error:
InvalidTemplate. The execution of template action 'Filter_array'
failed: The evaluation of 'query' action 'where' expression
'#contains(item()?['tags'], variables('TagValue'))' failed: 'The
template language function 'contains' expects its first argument
'collection' to be a dictionary (object), an array or a string. The
provided value is of type 'Null'.'.
Would anyone know how to get around this?
I have tried similar queries to this #contains(item().tags?.stop, variables('TagValue')) just to see if it picks up anything, but I'm still blocked by a null response :(
I tried the above with the help of the Workflow Definition Language, but still no dice. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT
In addition to the answer posted by Thomas, I have performed the following (image below) to filter out null from the results and get to the TagName, but I am still unable to get to the TagValue, even if I use contains:
#and(contains(item()?['tags'], variables('TagName')), contains(item()?['tags'], variables('TagValue')))
or event just trying to look for TagValue
#contains(item()?['tags'], variables('TagValue'))

You can check for null and return an empty value (an empty array in your case).
You can replace item()?['tags'] with this expression or create a variable :
if(equals(item()?['tags'], null), [], item()?['tags'])

Fetch list of 50,000 most subscribed channels

I'm trying to figure out a way to grab the top 50,000 most subscribed youtube channels using javascript. These only need to be grabbed once and will be stored in a file to be used for an autocomplete input in a webpage.
I've gotten pretty close to getting the first top 50 by using search:list (/youtube/v3/search) by searching with parameters maxResults=50, order=viewCount, part=snippet, type=channel, fields=nextPageToken,items(snippet(channelId,title))
Returning:
{
"nextPageToken": "CDIQAA",
"items": [{
"snippet": {
"channelId": "UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ",
"title": "Music"
}
},{
"snippet": {
"channelId": "UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw",
"title": "PewDiePie"
}
},{
"snippet": {
"channelId": "UCVPYbobPRzz0SjinWekjUBw",
"title": "Анатолий Шарий"
}
},{
"snippet": {
"channelId": "UCam8T03EOFBsNdR0thrFHdQ",
"title": "VEGETTA777"
}
},...
Then all I'd have to do is fetch that 1000 more times using the nextPageToken to get a list of the top 50,000.
Unfortunately, sorting by relevance, rating, viewCount, or nothing is not yielding the 50 most subscribed channels, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of way to order them by subscriber count according to the documentation; so it seems like i am stuck.

Just before you writing your 50 results in file (or database), you can make one more API call, using channelId field from your result, and merge all of them with comma delimited and make another API call Channels: list.
On that page for example you can use following parameters:
(these are IDs from your example above)
part=statistics
id=UC-9-kyTW8ZkZNDHQJ6FgpwQ,UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw,UCVPYbobPRzz0SjinWekjUBw,UCam8T03EOFBsNdR0thrFHdQ`
And result will look something like this:
{
"kind": "youtube#channel",
"etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/MG6zgnd09mqb3nAdyRnPDgFwfkE\"",
"id": "UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw",
"statistics": {
"viewCount": "15194203723",
"commentCount": "289181",
"subscriberCount": "54913094",
"hiddenSubscriberCount": false,
"videoCount": "3175"
}
}
And you can take subscriberCount from result for each channel.
I know, this is not the way to sort your 50 results while writing into the file,
but with this you can sort later your results by "subscriber count" while fetching from file for your autocomplete input.
I didn't find any other way to sort results by subscriber count, so maybe this can be helpful.

The idea to do is to run a server side script, that makes RESTful api calls in a loop, and writes the results to .JSON file, to save results. For that you can create PHP script, that makes REST API call to google, and fetch first 50 results, and then use file write operations to write your results. Run that PHP script as corn job to update results at regular intervals. Executing corn job at every specific time interval you set keeps results fresh.
Hit CURL command with loop for next, to fetches 50 results every time and create temp file with all the results saved in .JSON file. Once your results are fetched, replace your old JSON file with newly created temporary file. This will generate fresh JSON file are regular, with new results if any changes are made to data.
However, the idea to use temporary file is to avoid script avoid wait/slow of AJAX down due to consistent read and write operations on same file. Once temporary file is written, simply use move command to replace the actual file.
Make sure, you use cache control headers in AJAX results to keep its freshness of data.

How Do I See the Output of Changes to JSON

Updated to try to be more clear given the comments (Thank you for comments)
I apologize in advance for this question. I may just not have the vocabulary to properly research it. If I have an array of objects called restaurants stored in my project, for example:
restaurants: [
{
"name": "joes's pizza",
"url": "joespizza.com",
"social properties": {
"Facebook":"fb.com/pizza",
"Instagram":"instagram.com/pizza",
"googlePlus":"pizza+",
"Twitter":"twitter.com/pizza"
}
},
{
"name": "tony's subs",
"url": "tonys.com",
"social properties": {
"Facebook":"fb.com/subs",
"Instagram":"instagram.com/subs",
"googlePlus":"subs+",
"Twitter":"twitter.com/subs"
}
},
{....}
]
I then run a function to add a unique idea to all the objects in the array. The result of console.log(restaurants) is this:
{
"id": 3472,
"name": "joes's pizza",
"url": "joespizza.com",
"social properties": {
"Facebook":"fb.com/pizza",
"Instagram":"instagram.com/pizza",
"googlePlus":"pizza+",
"Twitter":"twitter.com/pizza"
}
},
{
"id": 9987,
"name": "tony's subs",
"url": "tonys.com",
"social properties": {
"Facebook":"fb.com/subs",
"Instagram":"instagram.com/subs",
"googlePlus":"subs+",
"Twitter":"twitter.com/subs"
}
},
{....}
]
I would now like to have this updated array of objects available to look at in my project, via the text editor, as a variable or restaurants.json file. How do I actually see the new modified json array and how do i save it so that i can work with it the same way i did this one above? I am currently doing this in the browser. I can see the results if i log it to the console but I need to be able to work with the new output. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

You can encode/decode JSON with JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse().
Aside from converting to/from JSON, you work with standard JS objects and arrays:
var array = JSON.parse(json_str);
array[0].address = "5th Avenue";
console.log(JSON.stringify(array));

Well, there's really not enough information in your question but I assume a few things:
You've loaded the json data from somewhere and it has been turned into a javascript object.
You've edited the object somehow and wish to convert it back to json and save the changes.
Assuming the above to be true, you just need to serialize the object back to json and submit it back to your server where you can save it in any manner you deem appropriate.
You can serialize the javascript object with JSON.stringify() (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/912247/4424504)
Add the serialized json to a hidden field on the form and submit it.
On the server when processing the form submission, grab the data from the hidden field and do with it what you wish.
Or get it back to the server any way you wish (ajax call, whatever) the key point is to serialize the object to a json string and save it
Hope that helps...

Getting Straight Json from Can.Model

I use a c# 4.0 service to send json objects from a mongodb database to a website running canJS. I then show the json in a textarea on my page. The problem is that the json rendered in the text area has a weird duplication:
{
"_data": {
"field1": 5,
"field2": "Yitzhak",
},
"_cid": ".observe35",
"field1": 5,
"field2": "Yitzhak",
"_bindings": 1
}
This json is loaded using can.Model.findAll() then assigned to a field of a controller. Is there a way I can just print (and hold as a field) the basic Json without the duplication and can.Model additional information and no duplication?

On the off chance that anyone ever has this problem again:
One way to fix it is at the point where you send it to the text area it add .attr() This cannot be added before because it causes a breaks jquery. eg.
Excess printing:
$(".textarea").text(JSON.stringify(jsonObject, undefined, 2));
Correct:
$(".textarea").text(JSON.stringify(jsonObject.attr(), undefined, 2));

Using jQuery's serializeArray with Rails forms

I'm trying to display an order summary on the final screen of a checkout process (buit in Rails 3). Nothing is submitted prior to this, so I'm using jQuery's serializeArray() to get all the names and values from the form fields, which works great. I collect a variety of nested attributes, so the returned array is rather busy, with names like order[donations_attributes][0][amount_in_dollars].
Is there a straightforward way, in Javascript (or using jQuery) to convert those names and values to a JSON string (which would make it way easier to work with to produce my summary output). For example, something like:
{
"order": {
"donations_attributes": [
{
"amount_in_dollars": 50.95,
"category": "Some Fund"
},
{
"amount_in_dollars": 90.92,
"category": "Some Other Fund"
}
],
"billing_address_attributes": {
"first_name": "Bob",
"last_name": "Smith",
"address1": "123 Whatever Street",
"and so on": "etc"
}
}
}
Keep in mind that I haven't submitted anything yet (nor can I), so I can't do it in Ruby. Is there a sort of obvious, straightforward way to do this, or will I need to parse out and build the string by hand?

You can pass that data as-is to the data parameter in JQuery.ajax(...), and it will end up in parama in the controller method and view for the action you call, .e.g params[:order][:donations_attributes][0][:category] == "Some Fund".
If you want to load a new url into the browser, you can use JQuery.serialize() on the data and append it to your url (with a `"?" in between) to create the URL with the appropriate query string.