Integreat transformers

Core transformers for Integreat and MapTransform.

Prerequisits

Requires node v18 and Integreat v1.0.

Transformers

The package consists of several transformers that are exported as an object with the transformers set as properties:

• absolute
• arrToObject
• base64
• boolean
• count
• csv
• date
• dedupe
• extractNumber
• exclude
• formatDate
• hash
• htmlEntities
• integer
• join
• lowercase
• math
• ms
• now
• number
• objectToArr
• pattern
• range
• replace
• round
• size
• split
• string
• sum
• template
• trim
• truncate
• unique
• uppercase
• uriPart
• validate

Note on properties: Transformers use properties to define their behavior. If an object is defined as a transformer, any property not prefixed with $ will become one of the transformer's properties. For example, the step or path properties. These properties will often be referred to as a transformer's "options", in the documentation.

Note on direction: Some transformers behave differently depending on whether we are transforming data from a service or to a service. This behavior will be described underneath each transformer (or just below this section). In many cases there is a transformer with oposite functionality for the reverse direction. However, flipped mutation objects will also flip this behavior, and making the transformer work as the oposite direction. This will feel natural when you write configs, even though it might be confusing when reading the documentation.

absolute

Returns the absolute value (i.e. distance from zero) of a number. If the input is not a number, undefined is returned instead.

arrToObject

Forward: Sets the values from an array as props on an object. The prop names are given as an array in the keys property, and are matched in the same order as the values in the pipeline value. Values in the array without corresponding keys will be skipped.

Reverse: Explodes the props of an object to an array of its values, in the order of the keys given in an array of keys on the keys property. Keys on the object not included in keys will be skipped.

In a flipped mutation object, the direction of this transformer is also flipped.

base64

Will decode any base64 string coming from a service, or encode a value with base64 going to a service. In a flipped mutation object, the directions are also flipped.

A non-string value will be treated differenlty depending on the direction:

• When coming from a service, the result will be undefined (or null if null)
• When going to a service, the value will be forced to a string if possible, in the same way as the string transformer. null and undefined will not be touched.

base64Encode

Will base64 encode the value regardless of direction.

base64Decode

Will base64 decode the value regardless of direction.

boolean

Transforms values to boolean by JavaScript rules, except the string 'false', which is transformed to false. null and undefined are not touched.

count

It does what you thing: It counts the values you provide it. An array of eight items returns 8, one item (non-array) returns 1.

By default it will not count null or undefined, either in an array or as a non-array item. By providing an array of values to skip in the skip property, you may choose what values to not count.

When you provide your own list, you need to provide null and undefined in the list too, for them to be skipped. So to count every value, including null and undefined, set skip: [].

When defining this as JSON, you may use **undefined** in the skip list instead of undefined. (undefined does not have a literal in JSON.)

csv

This transformer takes a CSV string coming from a service, and returns an array of data objects. Going to a service, it does the oposite.

Each line in the CSV is converted to an object. When the headerRow prop is true, the first line will be treated as headers and thus used as keys on the object. When there's no header row, keys will be named 'col1', 'col2', etc., in the order they appear in the file. To have something other than 'col', set the columnPrefix prop the preferred string.

When generating CSV going to the service, the order of the columns will match the order of the keys on the object, unless some or all keys match the columnPrefix or the default 'col'. In this case, the prefixed keys will be sorted in ascending order by their number, before any other keys.

In a flipped mutation object, the direction of this transformer is also flipped.

The transformer handles objects with different keys by leaving columns empty in the places that other rows has values. The order of the keys will be determined with priority to its first occurence, so if a field is missing on the first object in the array, it will be placed after the keys from the first row, even if it is placed before or in-between them on the object it first appears.

The following options are available:

• delimiter: A character to use as delimiter. Default is comma (,)
• quoted: Signals if the value in CSV columns should be surrounded by quots ("). This only applies when generating a CSV string (to a service), as parsing will handle quots if they appear in the CSV regardless of this option. Default is true
• headerRow: If true, the first row will be treated as a header row when parsing a CSV from a service, and a header row will be inserted when generating a CSV to a service. In both these examples, header row values will equal object keys. Default is false
• columnPrefix: A string to use as the base for creating object keys when we don't have a header row. The columnPrefix will be suffixed by an incrementing number based on the order of the keys on the object, like 'col1', 'col2', etc. When generating CSV, any keys named as this prefix and a number, will be sorted accending after the number. Default is `'col'
• direction: By default, the csv transformer will generate CSV going to a service (and parsing CSV from a service). By setting direction: 'from', this will be reversed, generating a CSV from a service instead. The default is direction: 'to'.

date

Going forward – from a service, date will try its best at transforming the given value to a date, or it returns undefined. In reverse – to a service, it will format the date according to a given format.

In a flipped mutation object, the direction of this transformer is also flipped.

• Dates are untouched, unless its an invalid date, which will return undefined
• Numbers are treated as milliseconds since epoc (midnight 1970-01-01), unless isSeconds is true (see below)
• Strings are parsed with Luxon if a format or a tz (timezone) are specified (see below). If not, the string is handed to JavaScript's new Date(), which will try its best
• All other types returns `undefined

Date also have a few options for formatting a date (when going to a service), or parsing a date (when coming from a service), and to modify the date itself (before formatting or after parsing):

• path: A path to a point in the data from where to pick the date value. When no path is given, the data in the pipeline is used as is. Default is no path
• format: A Luxon format to use for parsing (from service) and formatting (to service), or the string 'iso' as a shortcut to a full ISO8601 date and time format
• tz: A timezone to use when the given date is not specified with timezone. Supports the same timezones as Luxon, like IANA ('America/New_York'), fixed offset ('UTC+7') and some others (like system).
• isSeconds: When true, a number will be treated as seconds since epoc, instead of milliseconds. Default is false.
• add: Adds the number of time intervals given by a period object (see below) from a service, and subtracts when going to a service.
• subtract: Subtracts the number of time intervals given by a period object (see below) from a service, and adds when going to a service.
• set: Sets a part of the date/time to the value given by an object in the same format as a period object (see below). E.g. { day: 1 } will return the first in the month from the given date.

A period object has one or more keys refering to a time interval (see valid keywords below), with the value specifying the number of time intervals (for add and subtract) or an absolut value (for set). The value may either be a static number or a path to where in the data the number can be found.

For example:

{ month: 6, day: 1 }

... or ...

{ month: 'settings.numberOfMonths', day: 10 }

The available keywords for the keys of a period object are: year, quarter, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond.

dedupe

Removes duplicates from an array. Only the first item that is a match will be kept. Any value that is undefined will not count as unique and will be removed.

For example:

const data = [undefined, 'first', 'first', 'second', 0, 1, 2, 2, null]

will return:

const result = ['first', 'second', 0, 1, 2, null]

Dedupe can recieve a path property which removes duplicates based on an embedded values.

An array of:

const data = [
  undefined,
  'undefined due to no path',
  { month: 6, day: 1 },
  { month: 6, day: 1 },
  { month: 6, day: 2 },
  { month: 7, day: 1 },
  { month: 8, day: 2 },
]

and a path of month returns:

const result = [
  { month: 6, day: 1 },
  { month: 7, day: 1 },
  { month: 8, day: 2 },
]

Note: The objects are considered instances. When comparing 2 objects with the same structure both will be kept. When comparing a primitive type within objects, using a path, all duplicates will be remove. This may be changed in the future.

extractNumber

Extracts all digits from a string and returns a them as a number. If a number is provided it will remain unchanged. All other types are returned as undefined.

exclude

Exclude items from an array at path when they are also in the array at excludePath.

If either of the paths points to a value instead of an array, it will first be put in an array. E.g. when path is a string that is found in the excludePath array, an empty array will be returned. When there's no data at either of the paths, an empty array is used.

formatDate

Formats a date the same way as date does, but does it regardless of direction, i.e. both from and to a service. (date parses from a service and formats to a service.)

See date for available options.

hash

Will create a url-friendly hash from a given string. null and undefined will be untouched, everything else will be forced to a string before hashing.

In the future, this transform may also create hashes of objects, but for now an object will be the hash of [object Object]. 😦

htmlEntities

Will decode a string with HTML entities going forward (from a service), and decode in reverse (going to a service). This transformer is not affected by being inside a flipped mutation object, and will decode from and encode to a service regardless.

Example: When we get 'foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux' from a service, this transformer will turn it into 'foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux', and vica versa.

We are using [the he package]{https://github.com/mathiasbynens/he} under the hood, with named references enabled and hexadecimal escapes. This means that '©' will be encoded as '©', as there exists a named reference, while any special char without a named reference, like '𝌆' will be encode with its character reference as a hexadecimal number (e.g. '𝌆'). When decoding, all variants are allowed.

Values are forced to a string or undefined by the rules mentioned under string.

integer

Cast the given value to an integer when possible. This is just a shortcut for the number transformer with precision: 0, so refer to its documentation for more details.

join

This transformer works exactly as the split transformer, expect that the direction is reversed, so refer to its documentation below.

In a flipped mutation object, the direction of this transformer is also flipped.

lowercase

Any string will be returned in lowercase, all other values will be untouched.

math

Provides the math operations add, subtract, multiply and divide.

All operations accept a value, which will be used in the operation, e.g.:

• { operator: 'add', value: 1 } will add 1 to the value from the pipeline
• { operator: 'subtract', value: 15 } will subtract 15 from the pipeline value

For the operations where the pipeline value and the operator value is not exchangable, like subtraction, where 10 - 15 is not the same as 15 - 10, the pipeline value will always be the first in the expression. Set the property flip to true to reverse this.

By default the transformer will use the value from pipeline, but you may specify a path to get data from an object. Also, as an alternative to specifying the value, you may set a valuePath. If both value and valuePath are set, value will be used as a default value if valuePath yields no number.

• The operations works in reverse as well, with add subtracting, multiply dividing, and the other way around
• Set the rev property to true to "reverse the reversing", i.e. to apply the defined operation in reverse, and the oposite operation going forward. This will also be the case in a flipped mutation object (not to be confused with the flip property of this transfomrer).
• If the pipeline value is a string, an attempt will be made to parse a number (float) from it
• If the pipeline value is not a number (or parsed to a number), it will result in undefined
• If the property value is not a number, the pipeline value will be untouched

ms

Will return the milliseconds of a Date since epoc (1970-01-01). Strings and numbers will first be casted to Date if possible. All other values will yield undefined.

now

Returns the current date, regardless of the pipeline value.

• The date is returned as a JS date, and may for example be transformed with the date transformer when needed

number

Transforms any given value to a number if possible, or returns undefined if not. Non-numbers are treated like the following:

• Strings are parsed with parseFloat
• Booleans are treated JavaScript style: true -> 1, false -> 0
• Dates are transformed to milliseconds since epoc (midnight 1970-01-01)
• null and undefined are untouched
• All other types will return undefined

To round numbers, set the precision property to the number of decimals to round to. When precision is not set, the number will not be rounded.

Note that JavaScript rounds towards +∞ for negative numbers where the decimal 5 is rounded away. Other systems may round away from 0 in such cases.

objectToArr

Forward: Explodes the props of an object to an array of its values, in the order of the keys given in an array of keys on the keys property. Keys on the object not included in keys will be skipped.

Reverse: Sets the values from an array as props on an object. The prop names are given as an array in the keys property, and are matched in the same order as the values in the pipeline value. Values in the array without corresponding keys will be skipped.

In a flipped mutation object, the direction of this transformer is also flipped.

pattern

Will return true or false depending on whether the provided regex pattern matches the data in the pipeline or at the path path. If no pattern is provided, the result is always false. If the value is not a string, the result is always false.

You may set the flag caseinsensitive to true to have a case insensitive match.

This transformer works the same in both directions.

range

Will create an array of numbers from a provided start number to a provided end number. The start and end numbers may be provided with the start and end properties to specify the numbers directly, or with startPath and endPath to retrieve the numbers from the pipeline data. If paths yield no number, the non-path prop will be used as a default.

By default, the numbers will be every integer (given that the start is an integer), i.e. a step of 1 between each number. You may specify different steps directly with the step property or from the data with the stepPath property.

Finally, you may set includeEnd to a boolean value to indicate whether you would like the end number to be included in the array if the last step "lands" on the end. (In other words, it is included if the difference between start and end is an exact product of step.) The default is false, i.e. the end will not be included.

If start and end is missing or not a number, or if a step is a non-number value, the result of range will be undefined.

replace

Will replace the from property with the to property in the given string value in data from a service, and the other way around in data going to a service. In a flipped mutation object, this behavior is reversed.

If the value is not a string, it will be passed on untouched.

round

Will round the pipeline value to the given precision. Default precision is 0, i.e. rounding to integer. precision may also be set to floor or ceil, in order to always round up or down to the next integer.

• Strings are parsed to a float if possible
• If the value is equally distant from the closest value in both directions, the value furthest away from zero will be selected by default, e.g. -3.5 will be rounded to -4, and not -3. This behavior can be changed to rounding towards +∞ by setting the roundTowardsInfinity property to true.
• floor and ceil is not affected by the roundTowardsInfinity property, and floor will always be away from +∞ and ceil towards +∞.

size

The size transformer returns the length of the value in the pipeline, regardless of direction, in the following ways:

• String: Number of characters
• Number: Number of characters after converting the number to a string
• Array: Number of items (including items that are undefined)
• Null and undefined: 0
• Everything else: 1

split

Forward: Will split the given value if it can be split:

• A string will be split into an array of segments by the given size property or by the character given by sep. When no size or sep is given, the string will be split at each space (' ')
• A number will be converted to a string, and segmented as a string
• An array will be split into an array of subarrays by the given size

All other types will be left untouched, but we may add new ways to split values in the future.

As an alternative to giving a split size in the size property, the sizePath property will get its value from the pipeline. If both size and sizePath are given, size will work as a default value when sizePath returns no number. In the same way, sepPath will get the separator char from the data at the given path, with sep as a default value.

Provide a path property to get a value at a path from the data, instead of using the data directly.

Reverse: An array will be joined, either by concatinating strings or joining arrays. When concatinating string, the sep or sepPath character will be used as a separator. If not an array, the value will be returned untouched.

In a flipped mutation object, the direction of this transformer is also flipped.

string

Transforms any given value to a string, according to normal JavaScript behavior, except:

• Numbers and booleans are forced to a string, so 3 becomes '3' and true becomes 'true'
• Dates are transformed to an ISO string like '2019-05-22T13:43:11.345Z'
• Objects are transformed to undefined
• null and undefined are untouched

sum

Adds an array of numbers. Will parse numbers from strings, but skip all other values. If not an array, it will be treated as an array of one element. Note that this transformer always returns a number, even null and undefined will yield 0.

template

Documentation coming ... :S

Note that template is supposed to have the reverse transformer parse, that is not implemented yet, so it will do nothing in reverse. The template will be applied on data coming from a service or going to a service in a flipped mutation object.

trim

Will trim whitespace from the beginning and end of a string, or return it untouched if it's not a string.

truncate

When a length property is set, a given string that is longer than this length is shortened. If a postfix is given, it is appended to the end and the total length of the shortened text will still be no longer than length.

unique

Generates a universally unique id. The incoming value is disregarded.

Set the type property to indicate what type of id you want, or omit it to get nanoid:

• nanoid (default): A small 21 character string generated with nanoid. Uses the letters A-Za-z0-9_-.
• alpha: Also a nanoid string, but with the letters A-Za-z0-9 -- no hyphen or underscore. This reduces the probability for collisions a bit, but only slightly.
• uuid or uuidLower: A RFC4122 version 4 id in lowercase, e.g. '9b1deb4d-3b7d-4bad-9bdd-2b0d7b3dcb6d', generated with uuid.
• uuidUpper: A RFC4122 version 4 id in uppercase, e.g. '9B1DEB4D-3B7D-4BAD-9BDD-2B0D7B3DCB6D', generated with uuid.

uppercase

Any string will be returned in uppercase, all other values will be untouched.

uriPart

Will uri decode going forward (from a service) and uri encode in reverse (going to a service). This transformer is not affected by being in flipped mutation object, and will decode from and encode to a service either way.

The uri encoding is done by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character. It is intended for encoding e.g. query param values, so characters allowed other places in urls will also be encoded, like :, \, and &.

Values are forced to a string or undefined by the rules mentioned under string.

validate

This is a transformer for validating the value at a path against a JSON Schema. We won't go into details of JSON Schema here, and the validate transformer simply retrieves the value at the path and validates it according to the provided schema.

Note that if you provide a schema that is always valid, it will be valid even when the data has no value at the given path.