SuperDB

Function

  flatten — transform a record into a flattened array

Synopsis

flatten(val: record) -> [{key:[string],value:<any>}]

Description

The flatten function returns an array of records [{key:[string],value:<any>}] where key is a string array of the path of each record field of val and value is the corresponding value of that field. If there are multiple types for the leaf values in val, then the array value inner type is a union of the record types present.

Note

A future version of flatten will support all nested data types (e.g., maps, sets, etc) where the array-of-strings value of key becomes a more general data structure representing all possible value types that comprise a path.

Examples

# spq
values flatten(this)
# input
{a:1,b:{c:"foo"}}
# expected output
[{key:["a"],value:1},{key:["b","c"],value:"foo"}]