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The package contains 3 custom activities for conversion of JSON/JArray to other data formats:

1\. JSON/JArray to CSV file.

2\. JSON/JArray to XML file.

3\. JSON/JArray to Data Table.

These activities accept all types of complex and nested JSONs either in a text file (specified in the input property InputJsonFilePath) with valid JSON/ JArray in it or it accepts JSON/Jarray string directly (specified in the input property InputJsonString) and creates an output CSV file or XML file, at user's designated path (specified in the input property OutputCSV/XMLFilepath) , or generates a DataTable from the input Json.

1.  Json to CSV: To view the data in tabular format, output CSV file can be opened using Excel. The first row in Excel will be the headers, generated from all the tag names in JSON file. In case of multi-level nested JSON, it retains the complete path of each element, separated by slash '/'. (as explained in image Explanation 1.)
2.  Json To XML: This activity converts Json/Array in XML format without any data loss. In case of JArray, element tags are added for each array element and in case of non-array objects Json keys are converted to XML tags and Json values are converted to XML inner text. Output of this activity should be .xml file. (as explained in image Explanation 3)
3.  Json To DataTable: It converts input Json/JArray to Datatable and provides the flexibility of directly applying all Data Table functions like filtering the JSON Data. In case of JArray, each Data row is converted to Excel Row Item and in case of non JArray structure, all the tags generate headers and in case of multi-level nested JSON, it retains the complete path of each element, separated by slash '/' so as to prevent any data loss. (as explained in image Explanation 2)

Time taken for this conversion is proportional to the level of nested data structure of JSON (between milliseconds to few seconds).

A pack of 3 activities which can handle any nested and complex Json / JArray and converts it into XML, CSV files and Data Table.

The package contains 3 custom activities for converting XML files to other data formats:

  

1\.     **XML to DataTable**

2\.     **XML to JSON**

3\.     **XML to CSV**

  

These activities can handle all types of complex and nested XMLs either in a text file (specified in the input property InputXmlFilePath) with valid XML in it, or accept XML strings directly (specified in the input property InputXmlString). The output will be a CSV or JSON file, at user's designated path (specified in the input property OutputCSV/JSONFilepath), or a DataTable from the input XML.

*   **XML to CSV:** To view the data in tabular format, the output CSV file can be opened using Excel. The first row in Excel will be the header generated from all the tag names in the XML file. In case of multi-level nested XML, it retains the complete path of each element, separated by slash '/'.
*   **XML to JSON:** This activity converts XML in JSON format without any data loss. In case of Array, element tags are added for each array element. In case of non-array objects, XML keys are converted to JSON tags and XML values are converted to JSON inner text. The output of this activity is a .json file.
*   **XML to DataTable****:** It converts input XML to DataTable and provides the flexibility of directly applying all DataTable functions like filtering the XML Data. In case of Array, each Data row is converted to Excel Row Item. In case of non Array structure, all the tags generate headers and in case of multi-level nested XML, it retains the complete path of each element, separated by slash '/' to prevent any data loss.

The time required for this conversion is proportional to the level of nested data structure of the XML (between milliseconds to a few seconds).

  

**Input Properties**

*   InputXmlFilepath - Takes the path of the text file which contains the valid XML.
*   InputXmlString (optional, if InputXmlFilepath is not passed) - Takes as input the XML string. Use Read Text file &gt; Deserialize XML &gt; pass the generated XML with tag name.
*   OutputCSV/JSONLFilePath - Takes the path of the CSV or JSON file in which the output will be generated. The CSV/JSON file will be generated at this path even if it is not present.

**Output Properties**

  

Output DataTable – It generates a DataTable from the input XML and provides an option of saving it in a DataTable type of variable.

  

**Notes**

  

Among InputXmlFilepath and InputXlString properties, only 1 input is allowed to be passed for all these activities and it is a mandatory input property. Output XmlFilePath and Output DataTable are mandatory output fields.

A package of 3 custom activities that accept any complex XML file as input and converts it into DataTable, JSON and CSV files.

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