Clean JSON

clean-json.js

const https = require('https');

https.get('https://coderbyte.com/api/challenges/json/json-cleaning', (resp) => {
  
  let raw = '';
  const expected = {"name":{"first":"Daniel","last":"Smith"},"age":45, "items_removed": 1};
  // parse json data here...
  let index = 1;
  resp.on('data' , (chunk) => {
    raw += chunk;
    // process.stdout.write(chunk);
  });

  resp.on('end' , () => {
    const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
    console.log(`🚀 parsed`, JSON.stringify(parsed, null, 2));
    let items_removed = 0;
    let removedItems = [];
    const invalidStrings = ['N/A', '-', ''];

    // Remove all keys that have values of N/A, -, or empty strings
    Object.entries(parsed).forEach(([key, value]) => {
      // string
      if(typeof value == 'string' && invalidStrings.includes(value)) {
          items_removed+=1;
          console.log(`✅`, {key, value});
          removedItems.push({[key]: value})
          delete parsed[key]
      };

      // Object
      if(isObjectLiteral(value)) {
        // Get keys with invlaid values
        Object.entries(value).forEach(([oKey, oValue]) => {
          if(typeof oValue == 'string' && invalidStrings.includes(oValue)) {
            console.log(`🚀`, {oKey, oValue});
            removedItems.push({[oKey]: oValue});
            items_removed+=1;
            // delete parsed[key][oKey];
          }
        });
      }

    });

    console.log(`items_removed`, items_removed)
    console.log(`❌ removedItems`, JSON.stringify(removedItems, null, 2))
    console.log(`-----`)
    console.log(JSON.stringify(parsed, null, 2))


    //  If one of these values appear in an array, remove that single item from the array

    // For all keys removed, create a key/value pair at the end of the 
    // output object with the key items_removed and the value is the count
  });
  // console.log(expected)

});

function isObjectLiteral (obj) {
  return Object.prototype.toString(obj) == '[object Object]';
}