Prepare an array of objects

wraps a data frame in a list and or unboxes list items that are 1 row dataframes. This will result in an array of objects being created.

Usage

prep_array_objects(x)

Arguments

x

list of data frames or a data frame

Value

list of single row unboxed data frames

See also

Other JSON Prep: clean_field_names(), get_entity(), prep_affiliation(), prep_atomic(), prep_creators(), prep_data(), prep_descriptions(), prep_for_json(), prep_from_metadata_template(), prep_fundingReferences(), prep_identifier(), prep_language(), prep_methodology(), prep_methods(), prep_nameIdentifiers(), prep_object(), prep_publicationYear(), prep_relatedIdentifiers(), prep_rights(), prep_subjects(), prep_titles()

Examples

# note that you cannot unbox data frames with more than 1 row

x <- list(
  tibble::tibble(age = 1, group = letters[1]),
  tibble::tibble(age = 2, group = letters[2])
)

# running jsonlite::toJSON on an unmodified object results in
# extra square brackets - an array of arrays of objects
jsonlite::toJSON(x, pretty = TRUE)
#> [
#>   [
#>     {
#>       "age": 1,
#>       "group": "a"
#>     }
#>   ],
#>   [
#>     {
#>       "age": 2,
#>       "group": "b"
#>     }
#>   ]
#> ] 

# with the prepped data we get an array of objects
x_prepped <- prep_array_objects(x)

x_prepped |>
  jsonlite::toJSON(pretty = TRUE)
#> [
#>   {
#>       "age": 1,
#>       "group": "a"
#>     },
#>   {
#>       "age": 2,
#>       "group": "b"
#>     }
#> ]