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Hi there,

I recently got in the place where the use of json formatted data is necessary. I am trying to explore the ParseJSON fx. I saw many guides on how to use it and that you have to cast a type to each element you try to present. However, I noticed on the official microsoft documentation that there is a second arguement you can pass to the function that is called type. It is described as a way to get a typed object instead by providing a schema for your json. I tried to find some examples of its use but I was not able. Has anyone tried this feature before?

Thanks for your help in advance!

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,504 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @CU17101437-0

So you can define the "type" yourself

So as an example you can take json coming in and turn it into a typed object like this, now understand that you can also do Collections, so if you have abunch of these you could make it a collection, versus just a Variable that has "a child table".

Let's pretend you had json that look like this from power automate:

{ "AnimalType: "Pig", "Weight": 45, "BeenVacinated": true}

You would make this a string and pass it in

And we want to use this as a Typed object

Set(AnimalData, ParseJSON( singleAnimalString, Table( AnimalType: Text, Weight: Number, BeenVacinated: Boolean }) ) )

Now you would access the data (whether its 1 record or 20 by using simple dot notation or you can also access rows by using Index, First, FirstN, Last, LastN or a look

AnimalData.Animaltype

AnimalData.Weight

AnimalData.BeenVacinated

If you wanted to have multiple rows you would have something like this to input it

[

{ "AnimalType: "Pig", "Weight": 45, "BeenVacinated": true },

{ "AnimalType: "Dog", "Weight": 20, "BeenVacinated": true },

{ "AnimalType: "Cat", "Weight": 10, "BeenVacinated": false }

]

And you would convert this to a string (heck it could be a collection already that you are just playing with)

Set(AnimalData,
        ParseJSON( multipleAnimalString,
             Table( AnimalType: Text, Weight: Number, BeenVacinated: Boolean }
        )
)

I hope that helps

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Thank you!
Sincerely, Michael Gernaey

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CU17101437-0 19 on at

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Hi @Michael E. Gernaey,

Thanks for your answer. This gives me a better understanding of that parameter.

I am wondering though how would I use it if my json had a more complicated structure like having an array of arrays or even objects? For example, what if my json is like this

[

{

relationship: [

{Value1: null, Value2 : "1", Value3: true}

],

type : [
{Value: 0},

{Value: 2}

]

}

]

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CU17101437-0 19 on at

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@Michael E. Gernaey also, it seems that there might be something off with the syntax in your example. I tried to replicate it and some of the parenthesis or curly brackets seem not to be located on the correct space.

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