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arraySetMetadata

Sets metadata for items of an array. Useful when using serializeJSON with ambiguous data.

arraySetMetadata(array, metadata)

returns void

Member Function Syntax

someArray.setMetadata(metadata)

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
array	array	Yes		The array for which to set the metadata.
metadata	struct	Yes		The metadata struct to set.

Serialize an array to JSON

Outputs serialized JSON for an array containing various data types

inputs = ["2016.02", 42.0, "Yes", "No", "32830", {"t1": "Yes"}, ["1","yes","3",false,"null","null"]];
metadata = {items: ["numeric", "integer", "string", "boolean", "string", {t1: {type:"string",ignore:true}}, {items: ["integer","boolean","string","string","string","null"]}]};
arraySetMetadata(inputs,metadata);
writeOutput(serializeJSON(inputs));

Expected Result: [2016.02,42.0,”Yes”,false,”32830”,{},[1,true,”3”,”false”,”null”,”null”]]

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