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Posted on by JPey 70
  • I have a csv with about 6,000 records and 12 columns
  • I need the data from just two columns (phone1 and phone2)
  • I need to group the two columns into one and eliminate duplicates and blanks
  • I need to send the unified data in chunks of 50 to another system via HTTPS POST API

My flow below looks like it works but the format of the data ( items() )in the HTTPS body part is wrong.

 

It looks like:

{
  "message": "test ",
  "mobiles": [
    "\"1111111111\"",
    "\"2222222222\"",
    "\"3333333333\"",
    "\"4444444444\"",
    "\"5555555555\""
  ],
  "batchId": 0
}

 

It needs to look like:

{
  "message": "test ",
  "mobiles": [
    1111111111,
    2222222222,
    3333333333,
    4444444444,
    5555555555
  ],
  "batchId": 0
}

 

My Flow:

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Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance for your expertise. 

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    JPey 70 on at

    I was able to put a compose to remove the double quotes and slashes:

    replace(replace(string(item()),'"', ''),'\','')
     

    Then I just JSON'd the output to get rid of the outside double quotes and it worked!

    json(outputs('Compose'))

     

    Thank you for everyone's help over this weekend. I have a lot to learn but the community was so helpful. 

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