gettingStarted.md

Getting Started

1 Add the Jolt.Net nuget package to your c# project.

2 Code and Sample Data

1. Copy-paste this code and sample data.
2. Get it to run
3. Replace the input and spec file with your own

JoltSample.cs

Available here.

using Jolt.Net;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Sample
{
    class Program
    {
        static JToken GetJson(string path)
        {
            path = Path.Combine($"../../../{path}".Split('/'));
            return JToken.Parse(File.ReadAllText(path));
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var spec = GetJson("spec.json");
            var input = GetJson("input.json");
            
            Chainr chainr = Chainr.FromSpec(spec);
            var transformedOutput = chainr.Transform(input);

            Console.WriteLine(transformedOutput.ToString());
        }
    }
}

/json/sample/input.json

Available here.

{
    "rating": {
        "primary": {
            "value": 3
        },
        "quality": {
            "value": 3
        }
    }
}

/json/sample/spec.json

Available here.

[
    {
        "operation": "shift",
        "spec": {
            "rating": {
                "primary": {
                    "value": "Rating"
                },
                "*": {
                    "value": "SecondaryRatings.&1.Value",
                    "$": "SecondaryRatings.&.Id"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "operation": "default",
        "spec": {
            "Range" : 5,
            "SecondaryRatings" : {
                "*" : {
                    "Range" : 5
                }
            }
        }
    }
]

Output

With pretty formatting, looks like:

{
    "Rating": 3,
    "Range": 5,
    "SecondaryRatings": {
        "quality": {
            "Id": "quality",
            "Value": 3,
            "Range": 5
        }
    }
}