Sails JS : Service to do json2json Conversion

[rasekar2000]

Sub : JSON to JSON Conversion as part of service in Sails.js . Details : Let us consider the simple use case that 1 User can have Many (M) Pets. Basically 1 to M entity relationship. By calling the REST API - http://localhost:1337/user/1 , we will be able to get the User and the Pet information in REST JSON format. But my Client Side --> Angular JS or jQuery requires the JSON in another format .. For e.g. to display in a Tree Structure https://github.com/aexmachina/jquery-json-list/blob/master/example.json, looking forward the best practice. Thinking of this as a Solution : I wanted to have a server side json 2 json convertor. To achieve this for e.g have additional custom methods in User Controller that can call the Sails Service ( NodeJS service) to do the JSON2JSON conversion. Considering this json-formatter to perform this conversion.. https://github.com/evenemento/json-reformatter/blob/master/test/simple.test.js Can I please know, how this Sails JS Community achieve a better server side solution? Thanks in advance.

[rasekar2000]

https://github.com/dregenor/jsonMapper is also looks clean.. Evaluating this as well for Json2Json conversion / mapping

[rasekar2000]

Hi @tjwebb , Thanks very much for the invitation. I was evaluating these 5, which are already in the similar objective.

i) json2json https://github.com/joelvh/json2json is written in CoffeeScript and designed to run in a Node.js environment. It can be easily converted to JavaScript to be used in a browser as well.

ii) json-reformatter https://github.com/evenemento/json-reformatter/blob/master/test/simple.test.js → Looks promising in javascript based conversion

iii) jsonMapper https://github.com/dregenor/jsonMapper --> Much better

ii) NPM Json https://www.npmjs.com/package/json-map Utility to map one JavaScript object to another

iii) JOI Format (https://github.com/hapijs/joi) @ WalmartLabs

Should we improvise some of them unless you have compelling performance improvement. .. Congratulations for your contribution in Github in many projects and for your blog..

Regards, Raj

[randallmeeker]

Curious... How are these libraries different from lodash ?

[rasekar2000]

Hi @randallmeeker ,

Thanks very much for the pointer. I reviewed lodash documentation. It provides detailed library.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25562706/use-lodash-to-transform-this-nested-json-data gave the confidence as well. Will evaluate and come back if required.

Thanks and Regards, Raj

[rasekar2000]

Hi Travis Webb,

Technically we can close this ticket. I moved forward with LoDash. But this provides an opportunity for an enhancement requirement for SailsJS. I mean the REST API into some other Client Specific JSON formats. We do have JSON Schema(http://json-schema.org/ or http://jsonschema.net) , similar to XML Schema.

But again, I don't think, this will be highest priority, but you may consider low priority future enhancement. According to your thought, you can close this and have a separate Json2Json conversion feature issue for later action.

Thanks and Regards, Raj