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Importing data from Salsa's export system - using a csvImport function
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| // Use a simple jQuery GET request to get the data from export and return it to myQuery variable | |
| $.get( | |
| 'http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/hq/export.jsp?', | |
| { 'query_KEY': 196951, 'type':'csv','include':'supporter_KEY,First_Name,Last_Name,Email'}, | |
| function(result) { myQuery = csvImport( result ); } | |
| ) | |
| // Here's a function to parse the CSV and return the results as objects - using the first row as a name sequence | |
| function csvImport( blob ) { | |
| var rows = blob.trim().split("\n"), | |
| results = [ ], | |
| keys = []; | |
| for( var i = 0; i < rows.length; i ++ ) { | |
| var row = rows[i].split(','), | |
| result = {} // The object we'll return for this row | |
| for( var j = 0; j < row.length; j++) { | |
| if( i == 0 && row[j].length > 2 ) { keys.push( row[j] ) } // Setting up the naming key | |
| if( i > 0 && row[j].length > 2 ) { // Creating the objects | |
| var value = row[j].slice(1,-1); | |
| value = isNaN( parseFloat( value ) ) ? value : parseFloat( value ); // If it's number - return it as a float | |
| result[ keys[j] ] = value; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| if( i > 0 ) results.push( result ); // Push the result to the array to return | |
| } | |
| return results; | |
| }; |
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