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Parse JSON only at 1st level

nagar57
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I want my nested JSON to be parsed only at 1st level instead of parsing all the nested parts. I have below JSON:

 

{ 
"Name":Naman, 
"Age":25, 
"Address":
{ "H.No":"23", 
"Street_no":2, 
"Area":"Model Town" },
 "Country":"IND" 
}

 

I want output like below:

 

Name | Age | Address            | Country
Naman  25   "H.No":"23",          IND
            "Street_no":2,
            "Area":"Model Town"

 

 I don't want to handle Address field separately as these are dynamic fields that are coming in from source.

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yeahnah
Motivator

Hi @nagar57 

You can use spath path=Address to extract the Address values.  Here's a run anywhere example using your source example data ...

 

| makeresults    `comment("# generate dummy data ")`
| eval _raw="{ 
 \"Name\": \"Naman\", 
 \"Age\":25, 
 \"Address\": 
   {\"H.No\":\"23\", 
    \"Street_no\":2, 
    \"Area\":\"Model Town\"},
 \"Country\":\"IND\" 
}"
| spath input=_raw

 `comment("# use the following to extract Address; you should not need to specify input=_raw")`
| spath input=_raw path=Address
| rex mode=sed field=Address "s/[\}\{ ]//g"
| fields Name Age Address Country
| stats values(*) AS * BY Name
| table Name Age Address Country

 

Please mark the post as solved if this helps.

Note: you could also swap the rex command with this eval statement, if you prefer...

| eval Address=replace(Address, "[\}\{ ]", "")

 

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