Please add item separator setting when there are multiple parts (or an array)

[Destroy666x]

Separator setting would be really handy to quickly style output for e.g. news tickers and similar things.

Currently you can, as far as I know:

• use {output0} | {output1} | {output...} kind of output if there are multiple, but that's not too efficient and readable to set up if there are let's say 50 or 100 parts
• not really do anything when it's an array directly, unless the structure of the output is clearly and uniquely distinguishable in terms of a regex. But then you need access to the output and you could set it to what I mentioned above anyways.

[royshil]

i think if i use https://github.com/pantor/inja it will enable everything and more you can use loops and expressions in the {{ .. }}

[Destroy666x]

Sounds good

[royshil]

implemented inja in #39

[Destroy666x]

The Windows build failed for now.

[royshil]

The Windows build failed for now.

@Destroy666x windows build works now.

[Destroy666x]

It's "Output Template" that's being rendered, right? First suggestion would be to turn that into a TextEdit textbox then. As from what I see inja loops have multiline syntax.

Another thing is how things are passed into the engine - e.g. array of objects seems to be text.

[royshil]

i can just send the whole parsed response (in case of JSON) and you can use inja to manipulate it as you wish

[Destroy666x]

Not sure about parsed response and how well Inja supports getting data out of it, but whole object/array would be nice for sure.

[royshil]

implemented in #39

[Destroy666x]

Any examples of how to do it with let's say this kind of JSON:

  [
    {
      "something": "something"
    },
    {
      "something": "else"
    }
  ]

?

And format it as something | else | ...

Not too sure how it was solved in the end looking at source.

[Destroy666x]

Example:

• https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/facts?limit=10
• JSON path: $
• {{output}} results in:

  [{"fact":"..."},{...}]

  kind of output.

I'd expect:

{% for fact in output %}
  {{fact.fact}}
{% endfor %}

to cycle it, but I can't reall get it or anything similar to work. Also with body instead of output.

[Destroy666x]

Ok, nvm, e.g.

{% for fact in body %}
  {{fact.fact}} |||||
{% endfor %}

is in fact working, but it's not fully stable, as I had to hide and show the source for it to be displayes, otherwise it just showed as is. Not too sure what's going on. But I think it's more of a problem with coming back to working state after inja errors out so I'll create a new bug and'll close this as finished.

[Destroy666x]

I guess there's one more question. With the example above, if I use:

$[*].fact

body doesn't seem to change compared to $, it's still just the whole JSON. Is there any way to access that specific JSON path as an array or object specifically, just like body? So that you could use e.g. {{ join(array, " | ") }}

[Destroy666x]

@royshil impossible, I assume?

[royshil]

@Destroy666x i'm not fully following you can you provide a worked example? e.g. with the JSON body and the desired output?

[Destroy666x]

@royshil example is like mentioned above:

• https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/facts?limit=10 - requires API key, output is something like:

  [
  {
  "fact": "something"
  },
  {
  "fact": "else"
  }
  ]

• JSON path: $[*].fact

body is for whole JSON output as the result is the same for the JSON path above and also for $ (root), even though results are different. Is there any way to have the JSON Path output as body or another variable? I don't think it's possible but I may have missed something.

I'd like to feed the result of that JSON Path to {{ join(body, " | ") }} as body

[royshil]

@Destroy666x let's take this to another clean issue just copy-paste plz