SamS.06423 (AAA Life Insurance Company) asked a question.
We have an AWS S3 bucket that contains a json file. I would like to Download that file and transform into a list in a flow. The download object card from AWS S3 functions and I can open the file on my workstation. Is there a way to transform that downloaded json file into a List?
Hi @SamS.06423 (AAA Life Insurance Company),
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I am not sure I have fully understood the use case of the question, but I have done some research and you have the capability to parse a JSON file into a workflows list. I have provide bellow a documentation about a function card that might help you with your inquiry:
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Hi @SamS.06423 (AAA Life Insurance Company) -
Once you download a file into Workflows, you can't "open" it within the system - the main things you'll be able to do are things like send the file as an email attachment, upload it to Box or another service, etc.
I'd suggest you look at perhaps using the AWS Lambda connector, or the Custom API action in the S3 connector to see if you could just return a JSON payload. You should be able to invoke a function that will return your JSON payload.
Outside of that, you can manually copy/paste the JSON that you're downloading into a Workflow and use the functions to manipulate data, but in terms of pulling your data directly into a Flow from S3, I'd look at the suggestions above.
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Hi @SamS.06423 (AAA Life Insurance Company) -
Once you download a file into Workflows, you can't "open" it within the system - the main things you'll be able to do are things like send the file as an email attachment, upload it to Box or another service, etc.
I'd suggest you look at perhaps using the AWS Lambda connector, or the Custom API action in the S3 connector to see if you could just return a JSON payload. You should be able to invoke a function that will return your JSON payload.
Outside of that, you can manually copy/paste the JSON that you're downloading into a Workflow and use the functions to manipulate data, but in terms of pulling your data directly into a Flow from S3, I'd look at the suggestions above.