Vue.js with iView Table - accessing Elasticsearch search response object - vue.js

Question

I am using the iView UI kit table in my Vue.js application that consumes an Elasticsearch API with axios. My problem is that I just can't seem to get to access the nested search response object, which is an array list object. I only get to access the 1st level fields, but not the nested ones. I don't know how to set the table row key in the iView table.
This is how my axios call and mapper methods look like:
listObjects(pageNumber){
const self = this
self.$Loading.start()
self.axios.get("/api/elasticsearch/")
.then(response => {
self.ajaxTableData = self.mapObjectToArray(response.data);
self.dataCount = self.ajaxTableData.length;
if(self.ajaxTableData.length < self.pageSize){
self.tableData = self.ajaxTableData;
} else {
self.tableData = self.ajaxTableData.slice(0,self.pageSize);
}
self.$Loading.finish()
})
.catch(e => {
self.tableData = []
self.$Loading.error()
self.errors.push(e)
})
},
mapObjectToArray(data){
var mappedData = Object.keys(data).map(key => {
return data[key];
})
return mappedData
},
The iView table columns look like this:
tableColumns: [
{
title: 'Study Date',
key: 'patientStudy.studyDate',
width: 140,
sortable: true,
sortType: 'desc'
},
{
title: 'Modality',
key: "generalSeries.modality",
width: 140,
sortable: true
},
...
]
The (raw) Elasticsearch documents look like this:
[
{ "score":1, "id":"3a710fa2c1b3f6125fc168c9308531b59e21d6b3",
"type":"dicom", "nestedIdentity":null, "version":-1, "fields":{
"highlightFields":{
},
"sortValues":[
],
"matchedQueries":[
],
"explanation":null,
"shard":null,
"index":"dicomdata",
"clusterAlias":null,
"sourceAsMap":{
"generalSeries":[
{
"seriesInstanceUid":"999.999.2.19960619.163000.1",
"modality":"MR",
"studyInstanceUid":"999.999.2.19960619.163000",
"seriesNumber":"1"
}
],
"patientStudy":[
{
"studyDate":"19990608"
}
]
}
}
]
And this is how the consumed object looks like:
As you can see, the fields I need to access are within the "sourceAsMap" object, and then nested in arrays.
How can I provide the iView table cell key to access them?
UPDATE:
I now "remapped" my Elasticsearch object before displaying it in the Vue.js table, and it works now. However, I don't think that the way I did it is very elegant or clean....maybe you can help me to do it in a better way. This is my method to remap the object:
getData(data){
let jsonMapped = []
for(let i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
let id = {}
id['id'] = data[i].id
let generalData = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['generalData'][0]
let generalSeries = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['generalSeries'][0]
let generalImage = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['generalImage'][0]
let generalEquipment = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['generalEquipment'][0]
let patient = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['patient'][0]
let patientStudy = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['patientStudy'][0]
let contrastBolus = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['contrastBolus'][0]
let specimen = data[i]['sourceAsMap']['specimen'][0]
jsonMapped[i] = Object.assign({}, id, generalData, generalSeries, generalImage, generalEquipment, patient,
patientStudy, contrastBolus, specimen)
}
return jsonMapped
},
The result is this:
Even though it now works, but how can I optimize this code?

Answer 1

A few functions can help you with your situation
let data = [{
key1: ['k1'],
key2: ['k2'],
key3: [{
subKey1: 'sk1',
subKey2: ['sk2'],
subObject: [{ name: 'John', surname: 'Doe' }],
items: [1, 2, 3, 5, 7]
}]
}];
function mapIt(data) {
if (isSingletonArray(data)) {
data = data[0];
}
for(const key in data) {
if (isSingletonArray(data[key])) {
data[key] = mapIt(data[key][0]);
} else {
data[key] = data[key];
}
}
return data;
}
function isSingletonArray(obj) {
return typeof obj === 'object' && Array.isArray(obj) && obj.length === 1;
}
console.log(mapIt(data));
Outputs:
{
key1: 'k1',
key2: 'k2',
key3: {
subKey1: 'sk1',
subKey2: 'sk2',
subObject: { name: 'John', surname: 'Doe' },
items: [ 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 ]
}
}
You can check it in your browser. mapIt unwraps the singleton arrays into objects or primitives.
But I recommend you to watch out special elastic client libraries for javascript. It could save you from writing extra code.