Creating a function in Coldfusion to dynamically convert a multidimensional array to a query object - multidimensional-array

Question

The problem I'm running into is the API I'm using for this particular project uses periods in the keys which is not allowed in query column names. So I need to figure out a way to rename the array keys to remove the periods (or replace them with an underscore). Here is the code I have so far, which is working, but throws an error when hitting the "accumulator.addRow" line. The error being that periods aren't allowed in column names.
<cfset varResults = '[{"roW_NUMBER":1,"membership.Individual.LocalID":999,"membership.Individual.FirstName":"AA","membership.Individual.LastName":"AA","membership.Individual.Company":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line1":"aaaa","membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line2":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_City":"Alexandria","membership.Individual.Work_Address_State":"VA","membership.Individual.Work_Address_PostalCode":"9999-2518","membership.Individual.Work_Address_CountryName":"UNITED STATES","membership.Individual.EmailAddress":"AA.AA#gmail.com","membership.Type.Name":"Regular","membership.JoinDate":"2009-05-01T00:00:00","membership.ExpirationDate":"2023-04-30T00:00:00","membership.Individual.FellowElectDate__c":null,"chapter.Name":"DDDD","id":"0e04bc98-0074-cc58-bf6a-0b438d800e7d"},{"roW_NUMBER":2,"membership.Individual.LocalID":9998,"membership.Individual.FirstName":"AA","membership.Individual.LastName":"AA","membership.Individual.Company":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line1":"ASASASAAASAS","membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line2":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_City":"Washington","membership.Individual.Work_Address_State":"DC","membership.Individual.Work_Address_PostalCode":"9999","membership.Individual.Work_Address_CountryName":"UNITED STATES","membership.Individual.EmailAddress":"ASASASA#gmail.com","membership.Type.Name":"Regular","membership.JoinDate":"2020-01-01T00:00:00","membership.ExpirationDate":"2022-12-31T00:00:00","membership.Individual.FellowElectDate__c":null,"chapter.Name":"DDDD","id":"0e04bc98-0074-c1ae-f171-0b438d800e7c"}]'>
<cfscript>
function arrayToQuery(varChapterRoster) {
return varChapterRoster.reduce(function(accumulator, element) {
element.each(function(key) {
if (!accumulator.keyExists(replace(key,".","_","all"))) {
accumulator.addColumn(replace(key,".","_","all"), []);
}
});
//writeDump(element);
accumulator.addRow(element);
return accumulator;
}, QueryNew(""));
}
// writeDump(varChapterRoster);
writeDump(arrayToQuery(varChapterRoster));
</cfscript>
Specific error: Column names must be valid variable names. They must start with a letter and can only include letters, numbers, and underscores.
I got past the "keyexists" and "addcolumn" lines by using the replace function, but replace won't work on "element" (throws an error) on the addRow line.
Changing tactics, here is a CFFiddle with some dummy data in it of the method I'm trying now. I think it is more straight forward, but getting another error that I bet is related to the periods again.

Answer 1

<cfset varResults = '[{"roW_NUMBER":1,"membership.Individual.LocalID":999,"membership.Individual.FirstName":"AA","membership.Individual.LastName":"AA","membership.Individual.Company":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line1":"aaaa","membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line2":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_City":"Alexandria","membership.Individual.Work_Address_State":"VA","membership.Individual.Work_Address_PostalCode":"9999-2518","membership.Individual.Work_Address_CountryName":"UNITED STATES","membership.Individual.EmailAddress":"AA.AA#gmail.com","membership.Type.Name":"Regular","membership.JoinDate":"2009-05-01T00:00:00","membership.ExpirationDate":"2023-04-30T00:00:00","membership.Individual.FellowElectDate__c":null,"chapter.Name":"DDDD","id":"0e04bc98-0074-cc58-bf6a-0b438d800e7d"},{"roW_NUMBER":2,"membership.Individual.LocalID":9998,"membership.Individual.FirstName":"AA","membership.Individual.LastName":"AA","membership.Individual.Company":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line1":"ASASASAAASAS","membership.Individual.Work_Address_Line2":null,"membership.Individual.Work_Address_City":"Washington","membership.Individual.Work_Address_State":"DC","membership.Individual.Work_Address_PostalCode":"9999","membership.Individual.Work_Address_CountryName":"UNITED STATES","membership.Individual.EmailAddress":"ASASASA#gmail.com","membership.Type.Name":"Regular","membership.JoinDate":"2020-01-01T00:00:00","membership.ExpirationDate":"2022-12-31T00:00:00","membership.Individual.FellowElectDate__c":null,"chapter.Name":"DDDD","id":"0e04bc98-0074-c1ae-f171-0b438d800e7c"}]'>
<cfset varResults = replace(varResults,":null",':""',"All")>
<cfset varResults = replace(varResults,"T00:00:00","","All")>
<cfset varResults = deserializeJSON(varResults)>
Answer based on original post. Demo
<cfscript>
function arrayToQuery(varChapterRoster) {
if(varChapterRoster.len() == 0){
return QueryNew('');
}
return varChapterRoster.reduce(function(accumulator, element) {
Row = QueryAddRow(accumulator);
element.each(function(key) {
QuerySetCell( accumulator , replace(key,".","_","all") , element[key] , Row );
});
return accumulator;
}, QueryNew(replace(StructKeyList(varResults[1]),".","_","all")));
}
// writeDump(varChapterRoster);
writeDump(arrayToQuery(varResults));
</cfscript>
Answer based on your cffiddle. Demo
<cfif NOT ArrayLen(varResults)>
<cfthrow message="No data" />
</cfif>
<cfset Q = QueryNew( replace(StructKeyList(varResults[1]),".","_","all") ) />
<cfloop index="item" array="#varResults#">
<cfset Row = QueryAddRow(Q) />
<cfloop item="ColName" collection="#item#" >
<cfset QuerySetCell( Q , replace(ColName,".","_","all") , item[ColName] , Row ) />
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<cfdump var=#Q# />