jolt transform ( add array elements to a different existing object )

Hi @fisblack ,

Welcome to the community.

Your transformation is kind of odd. Usually transformation is driven by existing values or structure  even when generating new fields with defaults. I have never seen a case where newly generated values drive transformation of existing ones. I assume you are getting the list of courseSubCategory from somewhere and the  script is rather dynamic utilizing some expression language & attributes. if you provide some context to how the list is coming about and what are you trying to achieve , maybe we can provide you with more accurate solution.

There are multiple ways of solving your problem as is - assuming you always want to replicate an existing field(s) against  newly generated 3 elements array with default  values of 1,2&3- , here is one of them:

[
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "*": "existing.&",
      "#1|#2|#3": "courseSubCategory"
    }
  },
  {
    "operation": "shift",
    "spec": {
      "courseSubCategory": {
        "*": {
          "@(2,existing)": "[&1]",
          "@": "[&1].courseSubCategory"
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

If you want to make this more dynamic in terms of number of "courseSubCatgory", you can construct the array assignment string "#1|#2|#3" in some upstream processors and store the value as flow attribute (let says its called the same) , then you can make it more dynamic by using the flowfile attribute where the assignment of the courseSubCategory in the first shift will look like this:

"${courseSubCategory}": "courseSubCategory"

Hope that helps. If it does help, please accept the solution.

Thanks

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