Peter Johnston 

Perhaps it would help if you shared a snippet of the json file?  The expressions look ok at first glance assuming that the structure of your JSON data aligns with these paths. So we're missing info to be able to assist you.

Hi Paul 

Here's the sample (randomized) code:

{
"bronze": [{
"localisable": {
"title": "This is Title 1",
"subTitle": "This is SubTitle 1",
"listItems": [
"List Item 1"
],
"ctas": [{
"text": "Text 1"
},
{
"text": "Text 2"
}
]
},
"image": "URL1",
"ctas": [{
"link": "URL2"
},
{
"link": "URL3"
}
],
"dates": {
"start": "26/06/2023",
"end": ""
},
"priority": "2",
"publications": [
"AB",
"CD",
"EFTG",
"csdtggtf"
]
},
{
"localisable": {
"title": "This is Title 12",
"subTitle": "This is SubTitle 14",
"listItems": [
"Item 2",
"Item 23",
"Item 33"
],
"ctas": [{
"text": "Text 1"
},
{
"text": "Text 12"
}
]
},
"image": "URL",
"ctas": [{
"lURL"
},
{
"link": "IRL"
}
],
"dates": {
"start": "28/06/2023",
"end": "13/07/2023"
},
"priority": "3",
"publications": [
"AB",
"CsdtggF",
"sdtgg",
"dsdsd"
]
}
],
"silver": [{
"localisable": {
"title": "Titlke 1",
"subTitle": "Titkle 2",
"listItems": [
"Item 1",
"Item 33 ",
"Item 4"
],
"ctas": [{
"text": "Text 1"
},
{
"text": "Text 12"
}
]
},
"image": "URL",
"ctas": [{
"link": "URL"
},
{
"link": "URL"
}
],
"dates": {
"start": "28/06/2023",
"end": "13/07/2023"
},
"priority": "3",
"publications": [
"AB",
"CsdtggF",
"sdtgg",
"dsdsd"
]
}],
"gold": [{
"localisable": {
"title": "This is Title 1",
"subTitle": "Totl 2",
"listItems": [
"Item 1",
"Item 2",
"Item 3"
],
"ctas": [{
"text": "Text 1"
},
{
"text": "Text 12"
}
]
},
"image": "URL",
"ctas": [{
"link": "URL"
},
{
"link": "URL"
}
],
"dates": {
"start": "28/06/2023",
"end": "13/07/2023"
},
"priority": "3",
"publications": [
"AB",
"CsdtggF",
"sdtgg",
"dsdsd"
]
}]
}

TIIA

Peter

Thanks Peter Johnston 

The file you gave me contained an error in the "ctas" array under the second "bronze" object as one of the objects was missing a key for its value (which is "URL").  I had to fix that first as I couldn't parse your example at all.

Here's my corrected file:

{
  "bronze": [
    {
      "localisable": {
        "title": "This is Title 1",
        "subTitle": "This is SubTitle 1",
        "listItems": ["List Item 1"],
        "ctas": [
          {
            "text": "Text 1"
          },
          {
            "text": "Text 2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "image": "URL1",
      "ctas": [
        {
          "link": "URL2"
        },
        {
          "link": "URL3"
        }
      ],
      "dates": {
        "start": "26/06/2023",
        "end": ""
      },
      "priority": "2",
      "publications": ["AB", "CD", "EFTG", "csdtggtf"]
    },
    {
      "localisable": {
        "title": "This is Title 12",
        "subTitle": "This is SubTitle 14",
        "listItems": ["Item 2", "Item 23", "Item 33"],
        "ctas": [
          {
            "text": "Text 1"
          },
          {
            "text": "Text 12"
          }
        ]
      },
      "image": "URL",
      "ctas": [
        {
          "link": "URL"
        },
        {
          "link": "IRL"
        }
      ],
      "dates": {
        "start": "28/06/2023",
        "end": "13/07/2023"
      },
      "priority": "3",
      "publications": ["AB", "CsdtggF", "sdtgg", "dsdsd"]
    }
  ],
  "silver": [
    {
      "localisable": {
        "title": "Titlke 1",
        "subTitle": "Titkle 2",
        "listItems": ["Item 1", "Item 33 ", "Item 4"],
        "ctas": [
          {
            "text": "Text 1"
          },
          {
            "text": "Text 12"
          }
        ]
      },
      "image": "URL",
      "ctas": [
        {
          "link": "URL"
        },
        {
          "link": "URL"
        }
      ],
      "dates": {
        "start": "28/06/2023",
        "end": "13/07/2023"
      },
      "priority": "3",
      "publications": ["AB", "CsdtggF", "sdtgg", "dsdsd"]
    }
  ],
  "gold": [
    {
      "localisable": {
        "title": "This is Title 1",
        "subTitle": "Totl 2",
        "listItems": ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"],
        "ctas": [
          {
            "text": "Text 1"
          },
          {
            "text": "Text 12"
          }
        ]
      },
      "image": "URL",
      "ctas": [
        {
          "link": "URL"
        },
        {
          "link": "URL"
        }
      ],
      "dates": {
        "start": "28/06/2023",
        "end": "13/07/2023"
      },
      "priority": "3",
      "publications": ["AB", "CsdtggF", "sdtgg", "dsdsd"]
    }
  ]
}

Then I added all your rules and they seem to work just fine:

Can you explain what your problem is exactly?

Hi Paul 

The issue is that we need to be to replace bronze, gold, silver with regular expressions as we don't know exactly how many objects are going to be in the files and also the same for the digits within [].

The code above is only an example given to us by the developers and it is currently a work in progress and content will be added to it on an ongoing basis but this is going to be the basic structure of the JSON they will use.

Thanks

Peter

Peter Johnston 

I'm not sure I follow what you want to do.  I don't think JSONPath supports regex for key matching.  If you want to extract content from the arrays containing the words "bronze", "gold", or "silver", you would have to explicitly use those key names in your JSONPath expressions.

For example:

• bronze[*].localisable.title would extract the title from all "localisable" objects in the "bronze" array.
• gold[*].localisable.ctas[*].text would extract the text from all "ctas" objects in all "localisable" objects in the "gold" array.
• silver[*].dates.start would extract the start date from all "dates" objects in the "silver" array.

If you want to apply the same JSONPath expression to the "bronze", "gold", and "silver" arrays, you would need to replicate the expression three times, once for each key. JSONPath also doesn't offer a way to apply a single expression to multiple keys... as far as I know.

Have I completely misunderstood you?

Hi Paul 

No, you are getting exactly what I want to achieve but it looks like maybe json isn't the way to go in this case. I'll go back to the developers and see if there's another format they can use.

Thanks for your help on this.

Peter

Peter Johnston 

Peter Johnston said:

I'll go back to the developers and see if there's another format they can use.

Plain old XML may be better, it's far more flexible in terms of what you can do with the content of the file than JSON (in my opinion).