HTTp Response body trim

Hi Uche,

So when working with response, import the whole JSON response as a custom type, then set the Output type property to this new custom type. To access a nested list, you will need to loop through the parent-level list in the response output first and then extract the nested list by either assigning the nested-list directly to another List type or by using the ForEach and then for each nested item use an AddToList to add each item to a main list.

Take a look at this article and just do a search for ‘nested lists’.

Just to give you an example here, if I have response object like below:


{
   "field1":"This is a value",
   "field2":1111,
   "parentList":[
      [
         "List1_item1",
         "List1_item2",
         "List1_item3"
      ],
      [
         "List2_item1",
         "List2_item2",
         "List2_item3"
      ]
   ]
}

And now I want to access the nested items i.e. List1_item1, List2_item2....

So first I would import the whole json as a new type, lets say ‘myResponse’:
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I could then use a JsonReader to use the response as the Json string property and the newly imported type as the Output type:
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Now lets say we wanted build up a ‘master’ list of all the items in all the nested lists.

To do that, we need to first loop through the parent list, which is done by using a ForEach function and looping through the nested list returned from the JsonReader output:
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Now for each parent list, we then need to do another loop through the child list and then we will have access to the individual items:
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In this lowest level loop, we will have access to the items of the nested list, so we can for example add them to a main list of some kind:

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So depending on what you want your end result to be the exact approach may vary.

Just reply to this if you still struggle.