Hi,
I might resolve this issue and lets connect with me so I will take remote
control and resolve the issue.
Thanks,
Suresh K
On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 3:59:03 PM UTC+5:30, Lucky Jindal wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am fairly new to node stack and still learning. I am new to this forum
> and I hope someone could help me fixing my problem here.
>
> Right now, I am working on backend (express.js) where I need to deal to
> lot of JSON for writing restful apis.
>
> Application - Front end sends form data in JSON format ( data model. json)
> and it is sent to backend. Backend router accepts POST request with form
> data and does something with it, transforms it into some another JSON
> format, say, object.json and sends it over to external server via POST and
> gets 200 OK. Now, I am dealing with huge and nested JSONs and many calls
> over http to 3rd party server.
>
> My problem here: Since both JSONs, data model JSON and object. json are in
> completely different format, transforming is hard part. Since they are
> written by different teams, it kind of hard to have matching fields/keys.
>
> Example .
> *1. "data.json" *-> Coming from Angular front end, it has form data and
> sent when form submitted like-
> *{ name : "ASC", id : "101".....}*
>
> 2. In backend, I have router methods, which gets this POST call and
>
> ~ accept data.json (with data)
> ~ read another json, *"object.json"* which is more like a template. This
> is in the format accepted by restful api on external server. So we have to
> use this, fill in it with data from data.json and send it over.
> ~ *"object.json "*
> {username : "", userId : "".... }
>
> So Idea is, I read data from data.json and fill in template.json and send
> it over.
>
> I tried 2 methods ---
> 1. Traverse over keys in *object.json* one by one and fill in manually,
> which seems lot of work and these are huge jsons. This was working until I
> realized, its getting cumbersome.
> 2. Using some external templating API. One I tried was *json-templater.*
>
>
> Now, my template.json
> ~ {username : "{{uname}}", userId : "{{uid}}" } . Values in {{}} will be
> filled up by this new api.
> ~
> var object = require (../json-templater)
> return object( require(object.json, {uname :"ABC"}}
>
> It worked partially.
>
> Results returned by 'return' are same as I want. But something is changed,
> format. Because results are rejected by external server. If I comment this
> call, and hardcode same results, it works ok.
> Since I am just learning and trying to make it work and trying to find out
> what happened, I hard coded all the data in "object.json" and still run
> object function in json-template and it breaks.
> Only way it works is, not passing it through object function in
> json-templater.
>
>
> Any ideas to make this work or new API or any other approach. Suggestions
> welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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