Array id handling

[axelekenberg]

Hi! Im working on a project related to robots, i have an API which gives me an array like this: { name: "Michael Pierson" id: "19385789238" age: 12 } . . .

Where i am given parameters with information about the robot in which i have hundreds of these. In my bot i need to send in the id to modify a robot, is there any way that i can convert the robot id to its name so that i only need to tell the bot its name?

[dmvtech]

Hi @axelekenberg

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[dmvtech]

Assuming one might have something like:

{
  "robots": [
  {
    "name": "R2D2",
    "id": "19385789238"
  },
  {
    "name": "C3PO",
    "id": "c3c3c3c3c3c3"
  },
  {
    "name": "Robby",
    "id": "242324654"
  },
  {
    "name": "WALL-E",
    "id": "c3c3c3c3c3c3"
  }
  ]
}

You can use the following adaptive expression to select Id by passing in the name: select(where(robots, r, r.name == 'R2D2'), n, n.id)

Prebuilt functions: Select Where

[axelekenberg]

So if i had this array that is above with age also, how can i filter on the age as well, lets say that i want R2D2 with age 15 and not the other ones how do i do that?