This workbook is designed to accompany section 302 - API and JSON - The Fundamentals.
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Exercise 302-1 - Creating a JSON Object
A good example is a Food object. Each Food Object should be related to a fruit or vegetable.
Download and review this CSV File
As you can see it is a pretty simple file containing various fruit and vegetables and information about each … including the serving size (grams and ounces), calories, and some nutritional data.
Let’s use the following dataset to convert to a JSON object remembering these simple rules:
- Curly braces start and end a JSON Object
- The key/value pairs are separated by colons
- Multiple key/value pairs WITHIN AN OBJECT are separated by commas
Exercise 302-2 - Using a JSON Object in a Flow
Now, let’s “do something” with the object that we have available …
An “Object: Get” card may be enough. Should not be overwhelming.
Before we close this section, let’s do something more interesting …
- Take the CSV File
- Load into GSheets
- Create a new Flow to read this file
- Bring in ALL Rows
- Observe the result - which is in JSON