Hi Suresh,
What is your idea to resolve this issue? You thinking of writing regex
based util to fill in placeholders?
On Monday, December 25, 2017 at 11:30:22 AM UTC-5, kallem suresh wrote:
>
> 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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