Plumber: Nested JSON

[Jube-Dev]

Hello,

I started with Plumber today and it is working great. When the JSON is flat, it works exactly as expected.

How does Plumber deal with JSON that is nested and multi-layered? How would I craft the function in this manner?

Am I to understand that I have to flatten the structure before i send it over?

Thanks

[shrektan]

I don't understand what you mean. There's no difference between __flat JSON__ and __multi-layered JSON__, in my opinion. An example may help to understand.

[freitasskeeled]

I was about to ask the same question (I think) so I decided to comment here.

In my case, the application requires that the fromJSON call has the flatten flag set to TRUE. Using Plumber, I'm unable to use the parsed args directly because there is no way to specify that. Alternatively, I use req$postBody with my own parsing.

I checked the code and it seems that there is not way to configure that. safeFromJSON function accepts args that are then passed to jsonlite::fromJSON call but the parseBody function doesn't take advantage of that.

Maybe adding a way to set custom settings for the default filters?

[schloerke]

Closing due to inactivity

As a note, plumber can parse any valid JSON structure and can also return very complicated JSON structures.