My data looks like this:
[
{"name":"Jimmy H.","title":"Mr."},
{"name": "Janice H."}
]
So, if field does not have value, then also the field name is missing. What's the proper term for that?
EDIT:
Basically I'm looking for a term that differentiates structure above from structure where every field name (even without value) is guaranteed to exist in every record.
The one in the example is a combination of well known structures, it seems indeed an array of maps. At least, in JavaScript it would be an array of objects, but those objects behave like maps the way they are used in the example.
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I used to have a series of independent arrays (e.g. name(), id(), description() ). I used to be able to check whether a value existed in a specific array by doing name.include?("Mark")
Now that I moved to a MUCH MORE elegant way to manage different these independent arrays (here for background: How do I convert an Array with a JSON string into a JSON object (ruby)) I am trying to figure out how I do the same.
In short I put all the independent arrays in a single structure so that I can reference the content as object().name, object().id, object().description.
However I am missing now how I can check whether the object array has a value "Mark" in its name structure.
I have tried object.name.include?("Mark") but it doesn't quite like it.
I have also tried to use has_value?but that doesn't seem to be working either (likely because it used to be an hash before I imported it into the structure but right now is no longer a hash - see here: How do I convert an Array with a JSON string into a JSON object (ruby))
Thoughts? How can I check whether object.name contains a certain string?
Thanks.
If you want to find all customers called Mark you can write the following:
customers_named_mark = array_of_customers.select{|c| c.name == 'Mark' }
This will return a potentially empty array.
If you want to find the first customer named Mark, write
customer_named_mark = array_of_customers.detect{|c| c.name == 'Mark' }
This will return the first matching item or nil.
I have a list of objects that are returned as a sequence, I would like to retrieve the keys of each object so as to be able to display the object correctly. At the moment I try data?first?keys which seems to get something like the queries that return the objects (Not sure how to explain that last sentence either but img below shows what I'm trying to explain).
The objects amount of objects returned are correct (7) but displaying the keys for each object is my aim. The macro that attempts this is here (from the apache ofbiz development book chapter 8).
Seems like it my sequence is a list of hashes and as explained by Daniel Dekany this post:
The original problem is that, someHash[key] expects a
string as key. Because, the hash type of FTL, by definition, maps
string keys to arbitrary values. It's not the same as Java's Map.
(Note that to further complicate the matters, in FTL
someSequenceOrString[index] expects an integer index. So, the [] thing
is used for that too.) Now someBeanWrappedMap(key) has technically
nothing to do with all the []-s, it's just a method call, so it
accepts all kind of keys. If you have a Map with non-string keys, you
must use that.
Thanks D Dekany if you're on stack, this ended my half day frustration with the ftl template.
I've been hacking away at this one for hours and I just can't figure it out. Using XPath to find text values is tricky and this problem has too many moving parts.
I have a webpage with a large table and a section in this table contains a list of users (assignees) that are assigned to a particular unit. There is nearly always multiple users assigned to a unit and I need to make sure a particular user is assigned to any of the units on the table. I've used XPath for nearly all of my selectors and I'm half way there on this one. I just can't seem to figure out how to use contains with text() in this context.
Here's what I have so far:
//td[#id='unit']/span [text()='asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf (Primary); asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf, asdfasdfasdfasdf; 456, 3456'; testuser]
The XPath Query above captures all text in the particular section I am looking at, which is great. However, I only need to know if testuser is in that section.
text() gets you a set of text nodes. I tend to use it more in a context of //span//text() or something.
If you are trying to check if the text inside an element contains something you should use contains on the element rather than the result of text() like this:
span[contains(., 'testuser')]
XPath is pretty good with context. If you know exactly what text a node should have you can do:
span[.='full text in this span']
But if you want to do something like regular expressions (using exslt for example) you'll need to use the string() function:
span[regexp:test(string(.), 'testuser')]
I have a couchdb view set up using an array key value, in the format:
[articleId, -timestamp]
I want to query for all entries with the same article id. All timestamps are acceptable.
Right now I am using a query like this:
?startkey=["A697CA3027682D5JSSC",-9999999999999]&endkey=["A697CA3027682D5JSSC",0]
but I would like something a bit simpler.
Is there an easy way to completely wildcard the second key element? What would be the simplest syntax for this?
First, as a comment pointed out, there is indeed a special value {} that is ordered after any value, so your query becomes:
startkey=["target ID"]&endkey=["target ID",{}]
This is as equivalent to a wildcard match.
As a side note, there is no need to reverse the ordering in the map function by emitting a negative timestamp, you can reverse the order as an option to the view invocation (your start and end key will be swapped).
startkey=["target ID",{}]&endkey=["target ID"]&descending=true
For future reference, in CouchDB 3 you can use "\ufff0" instead of {}, which would be ordered after a string or number, but before an object.
From the CouchDB 3 docs:
Beware that {} is no longer a suitable “high” key sentinel value. Use a string like "\ufff0" instead.
The query startkey=["foo"]&endkey=["foo",{}] will match most array keys with “foo” in the first element, such as ["foo","bar"] and ["foo",["bar","baz"]]. However it will not match ["foo",{"an":"object"}]
This may be a silly question, but is it possible to make a query using XPath without specifying the element name?
Normally I would write something like
//ElementName[#id = "some_id"]
But the thing is I have many (about 40) different element types with an id attribute and I want to be able to return any of them if the id fits. But I don't want to make this call for each type individually. Is it possible to search all of them at once, regardless of the name?
I am using this in an XQuery script, if that offers any help.
use * instead of name //*[#id = "some_id"]
It might be more efficient to look directly at the #id elements - //* will work, but will initially return every node in the document and then filter!
That may not matter in a small document, of course. but here's an alternative:
//#id[.="some_id"]/..