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It's difficult to get the actual property name by searching on the value when using JSON. In this instance I would convert your JSON to XML then use XPath to get what we want.
See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.
Criteria is a Compose that contains the data you are searching for (the value).
Data is a Compose that contains your actual JSON data.
XML is a Compose that converts your JSON data to XML. Note that we also add a root element to ensure it's valid XML. The expression used is:
xml(json(concat('{"root": { value:', outputs('Data'), '}}')))
Finally, Output is a Compose that uses XPath to extract out the relevant property based on the Criteria, then gets the name of the property. It also needs to replace _x002F_ with / as XML converts this automatically, so we need to convert it back. The expression used is below.
replace(xpath(outputs('XML'), concat('name(//root/value/*[text()="', outputs('Criteria'), '"])')), '_x002F_', '/')
The output using the criteria for this example is below:
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It's difficult to get the actual property name by searching on the value when using JSON. In this instance I would convert your JSON to XML then use XPath to get what we want.
See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.
Criteria is a Compose that contains the data you are searching for (the value).
Data is a Compose that contains your actual JSON data.
XML is a Compose that converts your JSON data to XML. Note that we also add a root element to ensure it's valid XML. The expression used is:
xml(json(concat('{"root": { value:', outputs('Data'), '}}')))
Finally, Output is a Compose that uses XPath to extract out the relevant property based on the Criteria, then gets the name of the property. It also needs to replace _x002F_ with / as XML converts this automatically, so we need to convert it back. The expression used is below.
replace(xpath(outputs('XML'), concat('name(//root/value/*[text()="', outputs('Criteria'), '"])')), '_x002F_', '/')
The output using the criteria for this example is below:
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@hongdet -
This is a tough one due to the structure of your JSON. What you are essentially trying to do is return the key in a key-value pair. Here are some examples of that: Retrieving Key using Select or Extracting key-value pair . @grantjenkins also provided an excellent xpath solution as well.
However, if you could restructure your JSON to look like this:
{
"Timezones": [
{
"Name": "Pacific/Midway",
"Zone":"(UTC-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa"
},
{
"Name": "Pacific/Pago_Pago",
"Zone": "(UTC-11:00) Pago Pago"
}
]
}
You could simply parse the JSON using the 'Parse JSON' action and then use the 'Filter Array' action to filter on the 'Timezones' array where 'Zone' is equal to your user input.
Then, you can set a variable with 'Name' value returned from the 'filter array':
Results from the 'filter array' action:
Results from setting the variable:
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