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I have following three array of hashes.
customer_mapping = [
{:customer_id=>"a", :customer_order_id=>"g1"},
{:customer_id=>"b", :customer_order_id=>"g2"},
{:customer_id=>"c", :customer_order_id=>"g3"},
{:customer_id=>"d", :customer_order_id=>"g4"},
{:customer_id=>"e", :customer_order_id=>"g5"}
]
customer_with_products = [
{:customer_order_id=>"g1", :product_order_id=>"a1"},
{:customer_order_id=>"g2", :product_order_id=>"a2"},
{:customer_order_id=>"g3", :product_order_id=>"a3"},
{:customer_order_id=>"g4", :product_order_id=>"a4"},
{:customer_order_id=>"g5", :product_order_id=>"a5"}
]
product_mapping = [
{:product_id=>"j", :product_order_id=>"a1"},
{:product_id=>"k", :product_order_id=>"a2"},
{:product_id=>"l", :product_order_id=>"a3"}
]
What i want is a new hash with only customer_id and product_id
{:product_id=>"j", :customer_id=>"a"},
{:product_id=>"k", :customer_id=>"b"},
{:product_id=>"l", :customer_id=>"c"}
I tried to loop over product_mapping and select the customer_order_id that match product_order_id in customer_with_products and then thought of looping over customer_mapping but not able to get desired output from the first step.
How can i achieve this?
Using
def merge_by(a,b, key)
(a+b).group_by { |h| h[key] }
.each_value.map { |arr| arr.inject(:merge) }
end
merge_by(
merge_by(customer_mapping, customer_with_products, :customer_order_id),
product_mapping,
:product_order_id
).select { |h| h[:product_id] }.map { |h| h.slice(:product_id, :customer_id) }
#=>[{:product_id=>"j", :customer_id=>"a"},
# {:product_id=>"k", :customer_id=>"b"},
# {:product_id=>"l", :customer_id=>"c"}]
Definitely not the cleanest solution, if your initial arrays come from SQL queries, I think those queries could be modified to aggregate your data properly.
merge_by(customer_mapping, customer_with_products, :customer_order_id)
# => [{:customer_id=>"a", :customer_order_id=>"g1", :product_order_id=>"a1"},
# {:customer_id=>"b", :customer_order_id=>"g2", :product_order_id=>"a2"},
# {:customer_id=>"c", :customer_order_id=>"g3", :product_order_id=>"a3"},
# {:customer_id=>"d", :customer_order_id=>"g4", :product_order_id=>"a4"},
# {:customer_id=>"e", :customer_order_id=>"g5", :product_order_id=>"a5"}]
Then merge it similarly with your last array and cleanup the result selecting only the elements for which :product_id was found, slicing wanted keys.
Alternatively, a much more readable solution, depending on your array sizes might be slower as it keeps iterating over the hashes:
product_mapping.map do |hc|
b_match = customer_with_products.detect { |hb| hb[:product_order_id] == hc[:product_order_id] }
a_match = customer_mapping.detect { |ha| ha[:customer_order_id] == b_match[:customer_order_id] }
[hc, a_match, b_match].inject(:merge)
end.map { |h| h.slice(:product_id, :customer_id) }
Following your handling of the problem the solution would be the following:
result_hash_array = product_mapping.map do |product_mapping_entry|
customer_receipt = customer_with_products.find do |customer_with_products_entry|
product_mapping_entry[:product_order_id] == customer_with_products_entry[:product_order_id]
end
customer_id = customer_mapping.find do |customer_mapping_entry|
customer_receipt[:customer_order_id] == customer_mapping_entry[:customer_order_id]
end[:customer_id]
{product_id: product_mapping_entry[:product_id], customer_id: customer_id}
end
Output
results_hash_array => [{:product_id=>"j", :customer_id=>"a"},
{:product_id=>"k", :customer_id=>"b"},
{:product_id=>"l", :customer_id=>"c"}]
Other option, starting from customer_mapping, one liner (but quite wide):
customer_mapping.map { |e| {customer_id: e[:customer_id], product_id: (product_mapping.detect { |k| k[:product_order_id] == (customer_with_products.detect{ |h| h[:customer_order_id] == e[:customer_order_id] } || {} )[:product_order_id] } || {} )[:product_id] } }
#=> [{:customer_id=>"a", :product_id=>"j"},
# {:customer_id=>"b", :product_id=>"k"},
# {:customer_id=>"c", :product_id=>"l"},
# {:customer_id=>"d", :product_id=>nil},
# {:customer_id=>"e", :product_id=>nil}]
cust_order_id_to_cust_id =
customer_mapping.each_with_object({}) do |g,h|
h[g[:customer_order_id]] = g[:customer_id]
end
#=> {"g1"=>"a", "g2"=>"b", "g3"=>"c", "g4"=>"d", "g5"=>"e"}
prod_order_id_to_cust_order_id =
customer_with_products.each_with_object({}) do |g,h|
h[g[:product_order_id]] = g[:customer_order_id]
end
#=> {"a1"=>"g1", "a2"=>"g2", "a3"=>"g3", "a4"=>"g4", "a5"=>"g5"}
product_mapping.map do |h|
{ product_id: h[:product_id], customer_id:
cust_order_id_to_cust_id[prod_order_id_to_cust_order_id[h[:product_order_id]]] }
end
#=> [{:product_id=>"j", :customer_id=>"a"},
# {:product_id=>"k", :customer_id=>"b"},
# {:product_id=>"l", :customer_id=>"c"}]
This formulation is particularly easy to test. (It's so straightforward that no debugging was needed).
I would recommended to rather take a longer but more readable solution which you also understand in some months from now by looking at it. Use full names for the hash keys instead of hiding them behind k, v for more complexe lookups (maybe its just my personal preference).
I would suggest somethink like:
result = product_mapping.map do |mapping|
customer_id = customer_mapping.find do |hash|
hash[:customer_order_id] == customer_with_products.find do |hash|
hash[:product_order_id] == mapping[:product_order_id]
end[:customer_order_id]
end[:customer_id]
{ product_id: mapping[:product_id], customer_id: customer_id }
end
I am trying to convert one of my array into some format where it can convert itself into table format.
I have an array which is:
[
{
id: 1,
Revenue_Account: "Revenue Receipt",
Amount: 59567,
Year: "2012-13",
created_at: "2018-08-21T06:30:17.000Z",
updated_at: "2018-08-21T06:30:17.000Z"
},
{
id: 2,
Revenue_Account: "Revenue Expenditure ",
Amount: 54466,
Year: "2012-13",
created_at: "2018-08-21T06:30:17.000Z",
updated_at: "2018-08-21T06:30:17.000Z"
},
...
]
Full code of my array link to my actual array
I want this data to be converted into this format:
data: [
{
id: 1,
Sector: "Revenue Receipt",
2012-13: 59567,
2013-14: 68919,
2014-15: 72570,
2015-16: 96123,
2016-17: 105585,
2017-18_BE: 137158,
},
{
id: 2,
Sector: "Revenue Expenditure",
2012-13: 59567,
2013-14: 68919,
2014-15: 72570,
2015-16: 96123,
2016-17: 105585,
2017-18_BE: 137158,
},
....
]
I am using this code to group my array:
group = b.group_by{|data| data[:Revenue_Account]}
this is grouping my data as I am expecting in order to achieve my goal I am trying this code.
group = b.group_by{|data| data[:Revenue_Account]}
du = []
group.each do |i|
du.push({Sector:i[0]})
end
This is giving me Sector wise result how can I add year in my code.
You can't have a single id in there because you're grouping up many entries with different ids, but this is how you'd get the array in the format you're asking for:
grouped = {}
b.each do |x|
grouped[x[:Revenue_Account]] ||= {}
grouped[x[:Revenue_Account]][:Sector] = x[:Revenue_Account]
grouped[x[:Revenue_Account]][x[:Year]] = x[:Amount]
end
return {data: grouped.values}
Which gets you:
{
:data=>[
{
:Sector=>"Revenue Receipt",
"2012-13"=>59567,
"2013-14"=>68919,
"2014-15"=>78417,
"2015-16"=>96123,
"2016-17"=>105585,
"2017-18_BE"=>137158
},
{
:Sector=>"Revenue Expenditure ",
"2012-13"=>54466,
"2013-14"=>62477,
"2014-15"=>72570,
"2015-16"=>83616,
"2016-17"=>94765,
"2017-18_BE"=>122603
},
]
}
We build a new hash by looping through the original hash and creating hash keys if they don't exist. Then we start assigning values as you want them to be in the output. On each iteration, we're creating a new key in this hash for the Revenue_Account value if its the first time we've seen it. Then we assign that particular Revenue_Account's Date and Amount to the output. So for value 'Revenue Receipt' it looks like this:
Grouped hash starts off as empty
On first iteration, we see that group["Revenue Receipt"] is nil, so we initialize it with an empty hash via ||= (assign if nil)
We then assign :Sector => "Revenue Receipt" and this entry's Year and Amount, "2012-13" => 59567
Our grouped hash looks like: {"Revenue Receipt" => {:Sector => "Revenue Receipt", "2012-13" => 59567}
On the next iteration we see that group["Revenue Receipt"] is not nil, so ||= does not override it with an empty hash
We then assign :Sector => "Revenue Receipt" and this entry's Year and Amount, "2012-14" => 68919, which adds a new key/value to the existing hash
Our grouped hash now looks like: {"Revenue Receipt" => {:Sector => "Revenue Receipt", "2012-13" => 59567, "2012-14" => 68919}
After we parse the entire array, we now have a hash that has a key of the Revenue_Account, and values which look like the hash output you're expecting.
We discard the key and return only the hash values, which gets you the final output.
Another option, directly manipulating the array.
array_of_data = array
.each { |h| h[:Sector] = h.delete(:Revenue_Account) }
.each { |h| h[h[:Year]] = h[:Amount]}
.each { |h| h.delete_if{ |k, _| k == :created_at || k == :updated_at || k == :id || k == :Year || k == :Amount} }
.group_by { |h| h[:Sector] }
.values.map { |a| a.inject(:merge) }
Then just:
h = {}
h[:data] = array_of_data
To understand what happens along the code, just ad line by line outputting the result, like:
p array
.each { |h| h[:Sector] = h.delete(:Revenue_Account) }
Then:
p array
.each { |h| h[:Sector] = h.delete(:Revenue_Account) }
.each { |h| h[h[:Year]] = h[:Amount]}
Etcetera...
To understand .inject(:merge), see here Rails mapping array of hashes onto single hash
I am creating an array of fields
def create_fields fields
fields_list = []
fields.each do |field|
# puts "adding_field to array: #{field}"
field_def = { field: field, data: { type: 'Text', description: '' } }
fields_list.push field_def
end
fields_list
end
The fields_list is being set to a jsonb field.
Lets say I pass in
create_fields ['Ford', 'BMW', 'Fiat']
Json result is an array:
{"field"=>"Ford", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}}
{"field"=>"BMW", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}}
{"field"=>"Fiat", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}}
How can I access the 'Ford' from the json array? Am i creating the array incorrectly? Is there a better way to create this array so I can access the field i want?
This assertion passes assert_equal(3, fields.count)
However i want to get 'Ford' and check it's properties, e.g. type = 'Text', type could equal 'Number' or whatever.
The result of your create_fields method with the specified parameters is the following:
[
{:field=>"Ford", :data=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}},
{:field=>"BMW", :data=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}},
{:field=>"Fiat", :data=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}}
]
It means that if you want to access the line belonging to "Ford", you need to search for it like:
2.3.1 :019 > arr.select{|e| e[:field] == "Ford" }
=> [{:field=>"Ford", :data=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}}]
2.3.1 :020 > arr.select{|e| e[:field] == "Ford" }[0][:data][:type]
=> "Text"
This is not optimal, because you need to search an array O(n) instead of using the pros of a hash. If there are e.g.: 2 "Ford" lines, you'll get an array which contains 2 elements, harder to handle collisions in field value.
It would be better if you created the array like:
def create_fields fields
fields_list = []
fields.each do |field|
# puts "adding_field to array: #{field}"
field_def = [field, { type: 'Text', description: '' } ]
fields_list.push field_def
end
Hash[fields_list]
end
If you choose this version, you can access the members like:
2.3.1 :072 > arr = create_fields ['Ford', 'BMW', 'Fiat']
=> {"Ford"=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}, "BMW"=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}, "Fiat"=>{:type=>"Text", :description=>""}}
2.3.1 :073 > arr["Ford"]
=> {:type=>"Text", :description=>""}
2.3.1 :074 > arr["Ford"][:type]
=> "Text"
Both of the above examples are Ruby dictionaries / Hashes.
If you want to create a JSON from this, you will need to convert it:
2.3.1 :077 > require 'json'
=> true
2.3.1 :078 > arr.to_json
=> "{\"Ford\":{\"type\":\"Text\",\"description\":\"\"},\"BMW\":{\"type\":\"Text\",\"description\":\"\"},\"Fiat\":{\"type\":\"Text\",\"description\":\"\"}}"
This is a structure that makes more sense to me for accessing values based on known keys:
def create_fields fields
fields_hash = {}
fields.each do |field|
fields_hash[field] = {type: 'Text', description: ''}
end
fields_hash
end
# The hash for fields_hash will look something like this:
{
Ford: {
type: "Text",
description: ""
},
BMW: {...},
Fiat: {...}
}
This will allow you to access the values like so: fields[:Ford][:type] in ruby and fields.Ford.type in JSON. Sounds like it would be easier to return an Object rather than an Array. You can access the values based on the keys more easily this way, and still have the option of looping through the object if you want.
Obviously, there are several ways of creating or accessing your data, but I'd always lean towards the developer picking a data structure best suited for your application.
In your case currently, in order to access the Ford hash, you could use the Ruby Array#detect method as such:
ford = fields_list.detect{|field_hash| field_hash['field'] == 'Ford' }
ford['data'] # => {"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}
ford['data']['type'] # => 'Text'
So, you have result of your method:
result =
[
{"field"=>"Ford", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}},
{"field"=>"BMW", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}},
{"field"=>"Fiat", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}}
]
to get 'Ford' from it you can use simple method detect
result.detect { |obj| obj['field'] == 'Ford' }
#=> { "field"=>"Ford", "data"=>{"type"=>"Text", "description"=>""}
Also I recommend you to edit your method to make it more readable:
def create_fields(fields)
fields.map do |field|
{
field: field,
data: {
type: 'Text',
description: ''
}
}
end
end
I have a condition that gets a hash.
hash = {"_id"=>"4de7140772f8be03da000018", .....}
Yet, I want to rename the key of that hash as follows.
hash = {"id"=>"4de7140772f8be03da000018", ......}
P.S. I don't know what keys are in the hash; they are random. Some keys are prefixed with an underscore that I would like to remove.
hash[:new_key] = hash.delete :old_key
rails Hash has standard method for it:
hash.transform_keys{ |key| key.to_s.upcase }
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Hash.html#method-i-transform_keys
UPD: ruby 2.5 method
If all the keys are strings and all of them have the underscore prefix, then you can patch up the hash in place with this:
h.keys.each { |k| h[k[1, k.length - 1]] = h[k]; h.delete(k) }
The k[1, k.length - 1] bit grabs all of k except the first character. If you want a copy, then:
new_h = Hash[h.map { |k, v| [k[1, k.length - 1], v] }]
Or
new_h = h.inject({ }) { |x, (k,v)| x[k[1, k.length - 1]] = v; x }
You could also use sub if you don't like the k[] notation for extracting a substring:
h.keys.each { |k| h[k.sub(/\A_/, '')] = h[k]; h.delete(k) }
Hash[h.map { |k, v| [k.sub(/\A_/, ''), v] }]
h.inject({ }) { |x, (k,v)| x[k.sub(/\A_/, '')] = v; x }
And, if only some of the keys have the underscore prefix:
h.keys.each do |k|
if(k[0,1] == '_')
h[k[1, k.length - 1]] = h[k]
h.delete(k)
end
end
Similar modifications can be done to all the other variants above but these two:
Hash[h.map { |k, v| [k.sub(/\A_/, ''), v] }]
h.inject({ }) { |x, (k,v)| x[k.sub(/\A_/, '')] = v; x }
should be okay with keys that don't have underscore prefixes without extra modifications.
you can do
hash.inject({}){|option, (k,v) | option["id"] = v if k == "_id"; option}
This should work for your case!
If we want to rename a specific key in hash then we can do it as follows:
Suppose my hash is my_hash = {'test' => 'ruby hash demo'}
Now I want to replace 'test' by 'message', then:
my_hash['message'] = my_hash.delete('test')
For Ruby 2.5 or newer with transform_keys and delete_prefix / delete_suffix methods:
hash1 = { '_id' => 'random1' }
hash2 = { 'old_first' => '123456', 'old_second' => '234567' }
hash3 = { 'first_com' => 'google.com', 'second_com' => 'amazon.com' }
hash1.transform_keys { |key| key.delete_prefix('_') }
# => {"id"=>"random1"}
hash2.transform_keys { |key| key.delete_prefix('old_') }
# => {"first"=>"123456", "second"=>"234567"}
hash3.transform_keys { |key| key.delete_suffix('_com') }
# => {"first"=>"google.com", "second"=>"amazon.com"}
h.inject({}) { |m, (k,v)| m[k.sub(/^_/,'')] = v; m }
hash.each {|k,v| hash.delete(k) && hash[k[1..-1]]=v if k[0,1] == '_'}
I went overkill and came up with the following. My motivation behind this was to append to hash keys to avoid scope conflicts when merging together/flattening hashes.
Examples
Extend Hash Class
Adds rekey method to Hash instances.
# Adds additional methods to Hash
class ::Hash
# Changes the keys on a hash
# Takes a block that passes the current key
# Whatever the block returns becomes the new key
# If a hash is returned for the key it will merge the current hash
# with the returned hash from the block. This allows for nested rekeying.
def rekey
self.each_with_object({}) do |(key, value), previous|
new_key = yield(key, value)
if new_key.is_a?(Hash)
previous.merge!(new_key)
else
previous[new_key] = value
end
end
end
end
Prepend Example
my_feelings_about_icecreams = {
vanilla: 'Delicious',
chocolate: 'Too Chocolatey',
strawberry: 'It Is Alright...'
}
my_feelings_about_icecreams.rekey { |key| "#{key}_icecream".to_sym }
# => {:vanilla_icecream=>"Delicious", :chocolate_icecream=>"Too Chocolatey", :strawberry_icecream=>"It Is Alright..."}
Trim Example
{ _id: 1, ___something_: 'what?!' }.rekey do |key|
trimmed = key.to_s.tr('_', '')
trimmed.to_sym
end
# => {:id=>1, :something=>"what?!"}
Flattening and Appending a "Scope"
If you pass a hash back to rekey it will merge the hash which allows you to flatten collections. This allows us to add scope to our keys when flattening a hash to avoid overwriting a key upon merging.
people = {
bob: {
name: 'Bob',
toys: [
{ what: 'car', color: 'red' },
{ what: 'ball', color: 'blue' }
]
},
tom: {
name: 'Tom',
toys: [
{ what: 'house', color: 'blue; da ba dee da ba die' },
{ what: 'nerf gun', color: 'metallic' }
]
}
}
people.rekey do |person, person_info|
person_info.rekey do |key|
"#{person}_#{key}".to_sym
end
end
# =>
# {
# :bob_name=>"Bob",
# :bob_toys=>[
# {:what=>"car", :color=>"red"},
# {:what=>"ball", :color=>"blue"}
# ],
# :tom_name=>"Tom",
# :tom_toys=>[
# {:what=>"house", :color=>"blue; da ba dee da ba die"},
# {:what=>"nerf gun", :color=>"metallic"}
# ]
# }
Previous answers are good enough, but they might update original data.
In case if you don't want the original data to be affected, you can try my code.
newhash=hash.reject{|k| k=='_id'}.merge({id:hash['_id']})
First it will ignore the key '_id' then merge with the updated one.
Answering exactly what was asked:
hash = {"_id"=>"4de7140772f8be03da000018"}
hash.transform_keys { |key| key[1..] }
# => {"id"=>"4de7140772f8be03da000018"}
The method transform_keys exists in the Hash class since Ruby version 2.5.
https://blog.bigbinary.com/2018/01/09/ruby-2-5-adds-hash-transform_keys-method.html
If you had a hash inside a hash, something like
hash = {
"object" => {
"_id"=>"4de7140772f8be03da000018"
}
}
and if you wanted to change "_id" to something like"token"
you can use deep_transform_keys here and do it like so
hash.deep_transform_keys do |key|
key = "token" if key == "_id"
key
end
which results in
{
"object" => {
"token"=>"4de7140772f8be03da000018"
}
}
Even if you had a symbol key hash instead to start with, something like
hash = {
object: {
id: "4de7140772f8be03da000018"
}
}
you can combine all of these concepts to convert them into a string key hash
hash.deep_transform_keys do |key|
key = "token" if key == :id
key.to_s
end
If you only want to change only one key, there is a straightforward way to do it in Ruby 2.8+ using the transform_keys method. In this example, if you want to change _id to id, then you can:
hash.transform_keys({_id: :id})
Reference: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16274
I am wondering what is the best way to convert a json formatted key value pair to ruby hash with symbol as key:
example:
{ 'user': { 'name': 'foo', 'age': 40, 'location': { 'city' : 'bar', 'state': 'ca' } } }
==>
{ :user=>{ :name => 'foo', :age =>'40', :location=>{ :city => 'bar', :state=>'ca' } } }
Is there a helper method can do this?
using the json gem when parsing the json string you can pass in the symbolize_names option. See here: http://flori.github.com/json/doc/index.html (look under parse)
eg:
>> s ="{\"akey\":\"one\",\"bkey\":\"two\"}"
>> JSON.parse(s,:symbolize_names => true)
=> {:akey=>"one", :bkey=>"two"}
Leventix, thank you for your answer.
The Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(h)) method probably has the most integrity of the various methods because it preserves the original key types recursively.
This is important in case you have a nested hash with a mix of string and symbol keys and you want to preserve that mix upon decode (for instance, this could happen if your hash contains your own custom objects in addition to highly complex/nested third-party objects whose keys you cannot manipulate/convert for whatever reason, like a project time constraint).
E.g.:
h = {
:youtube => {
:search => 'daffy', # nested symbol key
'history' => ['goofy', 'mickey'] # nested string key
}
}
Method 1: JSON.parse - symbolizes all keys recursively => Does not preserve original mix
JSON.parse( h.to_json, {:symbolize_names => true} )
=> { :youtube => { :search=> "daffy", :history => ["goofy", "mickey"] } }
Method 2: ActiveSupport::JSON.decode - symbolizes top-level keys only => Does not preserve original mix
ActiveSupport::JSON.decode( ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(h) ).symbolize_keys
=> { :youtube => { "search" => "daffy", "history" => ["goofy", "mickey"] } }
Method 3: Marshal.load - preserves original string/symbol mix in the nested keys. PERFECT!
Marshal.load( Marshal.dump(h) )
=> { :youtube => { :search => "daffy", "history" => ["goofy", "mickey"] } }
Unless there is a drawback that I'm unaware of, I'd think Method 3 is the way to go.
Cheers
There isn't anything built in to do the trick, but it's not too hard to write the code to do it using the JSON gem. There is a symbolize_keys method built into Rails if you're using that, but that doesn't symbolize keys recursively like you need.
require 'json'
def json_to_sym_hash(json)
json.gsub!('\'', '"')
parsed = JSON.parse(json)
symbolize_keys(parsed)
end
def symbolize_keys(hash)
hash.inject({}){|new_hash, key_value|
key, value = key_value
value = symbolize_keys(value) if value.is_a?(Hash)
new_hash[key.to_sym] = value
new_hash
}
end
As Leventix said, the JSON gem only handles double quoted strings (which is technically correct - JSON should be formatted with double quotes). This bit of code will clean that up before trying to parse it.
Recursive method:
require 'json'
def JSON.parse(source, opts = {})
r = JSON.parser.new(source, opts).parse
r = keys_to_symbol(r) if opts[:symbolize_names]
return r
end
def keys_to_symbol(h)
new_hash = {}
h.each do |k,v|
if v.class == String || v.class == Fixnum || v.class == Float
new_hash[k.to_sym] = v
elsif v.class == Hash
new_hash[k.to_sym] = keys_to_symbol(v)
elsif v.class == Array
new_hash[k.to_sym] = keys_to_symbol_array(v)
else
raise ArgumentError, "Type not supported: #{v.class}"
end
end
return new_hash
end
def keys_to_symbol_array(array)
new_array = []
array.each do |i|
if i.class == Hash
new_array << keys_to_symbol(i)
elsif i.class == Array
new_array << keys_to_symbol_array(i)
else
new_array << i
end
end
return new_array
end
Of course, there is a json gem, but that handles only double quotes.
Another way to handle this is to use YAML serialization/deserialization, which also preserves the format of the key:
YAML.load({test: {'test' => { ':test' => 5}}}.to_yaml)
=> {:test=>{"test"=>{":test"=>5}}}
Benefit of this approach it seems like a format that is better suited for REST services...
The most convenient way is by using the nice_hash gem: https://github.com/MarioRuiz/nice_hash
require 'nice_hash'
my_str = "{ 'user': { 'name': 'foo', 'age': 40, 'location': { 'city' : 'bar', 'state': 'ca' } } }"
# on my_hash will have the json as a hash
my_hash = my_str.json
# or you can filter and get what you want
vals = my_str.json(:age, :city)
# even you can access the keys like this:
puts my_hash._user._location._city
puts my_hash.user.location.city
puts my_hash[:user][:location][:city]
If you think you might need both string and symbol keys:
JSON.parse(json_string).with_indifferent_access