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How to zip multiple cardinalities of nested json arrays?

cblanton
Communicator

We are trying to zip and expand several levels of nested json data. Here is an example of our json data. Below is an example of the desired output.

   {
     "level0": {
         "globalname": "TOP_A",
         "globalver": "1",
         "level1": { 
           "level2": [ 
               {
                "lvl2name": "LVL2A", 
                "warnings": { 
                    "totalcount": "26",
                    "rulebreakdown": [
                    { 
                      "rulecount": "2",
                      "rulename": "ruleA"
                    },
                    { 
                     "rulecount": "24",
                     "rulename": "ruleB"
                    }
                 ]
               }
              },

              {
                "lvl2name": "LVL2B", 
                "warnings": { 
                    "totalcount": 81,
                    "rulebreakdown": [
                    { 
                      "rulecount": "11",
                      "rulename": "ruleG"
                    },
                    { 
                     "rulecount": "67",
                     "rulename": "ruleR"
                    },
                    { 
                     "rulecount": "3",
                     "rulename": "ruleZ"
                    }
                 ]
               }
              }
           ]
          }
        }
    }

    {
      "level0": {
          "globalname": "TOP_D",
          "globalver": "1.5",
          "level1": { 
            "level2": [ 
                {
                 "lvl2name": "LVL6A", 
                 "warnings": { 
                     "totalcount": "2",
                     "rulebreakdown": [
                     { 
                       "rulecount": "2",
                       "rulename": "ruleAB"
                     }
                  ]
                }
               }

               {
                 "lvl2name": "LVL6D", 
                 "warnings": { 
                     "totalcount": "23",
                     "rulebreakdown": [
                     { 
                       "rulecount": "5",
                       "rulename": "ruleGG"
                     }
                     { 
                      "rulecount": "14",
                      "rulename": "ruleRG"
                    }
                    { 
                     "rulecount": "4",
                     "rulename": "ruleGZ"
                   }
                  ]
                }
               }
            ]
           }
         }
     }

This would be the desired output of these two events:

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
| makeresults 
| eval _raw="[{\"level0\":{\"globalname\":\"TOP_A\",\"globalver\":\"1\",\"level1\":{\"level2\":[{\"lvl2name\":\"LVL2A\",\"warnings\":{\"totalcount\":\"26\",\"rulebreakdown\":[{\"rulecount\":\"2\",\"rulename\":\"ruleA\"},{\"rulecount\":\"24\",\"rulename\":\"ruleB\"}]}},{\"lvl2name\":\"LVL2B\",\"warnings\":{\"totalcount\":81,\"rulebreakdown\":[{\"rulecount\":\"11\",\"rulename\":\"ruleG\"},{\"rulecount\":\"67\",\"rulename\":\"ruleR\"},{\"rulecount\":\"3\",\"rulename\":\"ruleZ\"}]}}]}}},{\"level0\":{\"globalname\":\"TOP_D\",\"globalver\":\"1.5\",\"level1\":{\"level2\":[{\"lvl2name\":\"LVL6A\",\"warnings\":{\"totalcount\":\"2\",\"rulebreakdown\":[{\"rulecount\":\"2\",\"rulename\":\"ruleAB\"}]}},{\"lvl2name\":\"LVL6D\",\"warnings\":{\"totalcount\":\"23\",\"rulebreakdown\":[{\"rulecount\":\"5\",\"rulename\":\"ruleGG\"},{\"rulecount\":\"14\",\"rulename\":\"ruleRG\"},{\"rulecount\":\"4\",\"rulename\":\"ruleGZ\"}]}}]}}}]"
| spath {} output=root
| stats count by root
| spath input=root level0.level1.level2{} output=level2
| stats values(root) as root by level2
| spath input=level2 warnings.rulebreakdown{} output=rulebreakdown
| mvexpand rulebreakdown
| spath input=level2 warnings.totalcount output=totalcount
| spath input=rulebreakdown
| spath input=root level0 output=level0
| spath input=level0
| fields - level* root rulebreakdown

That's a lot of work.

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