Extract Individual objects from a column in ADF

Question

Hello Everybody,

Does anyone know how to extract the individual objects from a single column using ADF dataflows or azure functions? In below picture you can see multiple objects such as Patching, EAM_ID, Owner..... in a single line. I want their corresponding values to be in a separate column and Patching, EAM_ID, Owner as column names.

I want it to be like this

Owner EAM_ID Patching
name1 111111 gghdgd
name2 22222 gfhgfgh

Note: those are neither JSON objects nor array's

Thanks in advance
Naveen

Answer 1

Hi @Billapati, Naveen ,

Thank you for posting query in Microsoft Q&A Platform.

You can achieve this using Parse transformation. First you need to append { and } to your data at beginning and ending to convert it as json string using derived column transformation and then use parse transformation to parse data.

Please check below detailed example.

Step1: Source transformation

Step2: Derived Column transformation to add { and } to your data at starting and ending.
expression used: '{' + Tags + '}'

Step3: Parse Transformation to parse data
Output column type expression used: (Patching as string,EAM_ID as string,Owner as string)

Step4: Select Transformation to select only required columns

Finally you can add Sink transformation to load transformed data in to Target system.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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