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JSON to Table in Power Query M
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(json) => | |
let | |
//List the expandable columns | |
expandableColumns = (_) => List.Accumulate( | |
Table.ColumnNames(_), | |
{}, | |
(s, c) => | |
s | |
& ( | |
if Type.Is(Value.Type(Record.Field(_{0}, c)), type record) | |
or Type.Is(Value.Type(Record.Field(_{0}, c)), type list) then | |
{c} | |
else | |
{} | |
) | |
), | |
// Do the record columns have a consistent structure? | |
columnHasConsistentType = (T, Cname) => | |
let | |
columnTypes = List.Accumulate( | |
Table.Column(T, Cname), | |
{}, | |
(s, c) => s & {Type.RecordFields(Value.Type(c))} | |
) | |
in | |
not (List.Count(List.Distinct(columnTypes)) = List.Count(columnTypes)), | |
// Expand the consistent typed column based on their primitive type | |
expandConsistentColumn = (T, Cname) => | |
if Table.Column(T, Cname){0} is record then | |
expandRecordColumn(T, Cname) | |
else | |
Table.ExpandListColumn(T, Cname), | |
// Expand the record column | |
expandRecordColumn = (T, Cname) => | |
let | |
fields = Record.FieldNames(Table.Column(T, Cname){0}) | |
in | |
Table.ExpandRecordColumn(T, Cname, fields), | |
// expand the table column with prefixing the column names with the parent column name | |
expandTableColumn = (T, Cname) => Table.ExpandTableColumn( | |
Table.TransformColumns(T, {Cname, Record.ToTable}), | |
Cname, | |
{"Name", "Value"}, | |
{Cname & ".Name", Cname & ".Value"} | |
), | |
// expand all available columns in the table T | |
expand = (T) => List.Accumulate( | |
expandableColumns(T), | |
T, | |
(s, c) => | |
if columnHasConsistentType(s, c) then | |
expandConsistentColumn(s, c) | |
else | |
expandTableColumn(s, c) | |
), | |
// initialize the table structure based on the JSON object | |
table_ini = | |
if json is record then | |
Table.FromRecords({json}) | |
else | |
Table.FromList(json, Splitter.SplitByNothing()), | |
// kick off the iteration to expandd all columns form the table based JSON object | |
iterator = List.Generate( | |
() => [expandable = true, table_chain = table_ini], | |
each [expandable], | |
each [expandable = List.Count(expandableColumns([table_chain])) > 0, table_chain = expand( | |
[table_chain] | |
)], | |
each [table_chain] | |
), | |
// output only the last iteration | |
out = List.Last(iterator) | |
in | |
out |
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