Function: genericFlatten

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    Goal: Recursively and Generically Flatten a document for integration with a non-NOSQL RDBMS.

    • This function genericFlatten shows how a document can be flattened into a RDBMS importable record.

    • Requires Eventing Storage (or metadata collection), a "source" collection, and a "destination" collection.

    • Will operate on all documents where doc.type === "my_data_to_flatten".

    • Will write transformed or flattened documents to the destination collection with the same type and id.

    • The destination collection can be shared (or replicated via XCDR to a business partner - maybe to AWS, GCP, or Azure).

    • Will also remove the flattened document in the destination collection when the original source document is removed.

    • Note since the document is not available during an OnDelete we will filter by KEY prefix starting with "my_data_to_flatten:".

    • genericFlatten

    • Input Data/Mutation

    • Output Data/Mutation

    // To run configure the settings for this Function, genericFlatten, as follows:
    //
    // Version 7.1+
    //   "Function Scope"
    //     *.* (or try bulk.data if non-privileged)
    // Version 7.0+
    //   "Listen to Location"
    //     bulk.data.source
    //   "Eventing Storage"
    //     rr100.eventing.metadata
    //   Binding(s)
    //    1. "binding type", "alias name...", "bucket.scope.collection", "Access"
    //       "bucket alias", "dst_col",       "bulk.data.destination",   "read and write"
    //
    // Version 6.X
    //   "Source Bucket"
    //     source
    //   "MetaData Bucket"
    //     metadata
    //   Binding(s)
    //    1. "binding type", "alias name...", "bucket",     "Access"
    //       "bucket alias", "dst_col",       "destinaton", "read and write"
    
    function deepFlatten(obj,flatDoc, path) {
        if (!obj || typeof obj !== 'object') {
            // log("terminal", path, obj);
            // remove leading "_" and store the path as a key to the terminal value
            flatDoc[path.substr(1)] = obj;
            return obj;
        }
        // process Object
        let newObj = {};
        if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
            for (var i=0; i<= obj.length; i++ ) {
                newObj[i] = deepFlatten(obj[i], flatDoc, path + "_" + i)
            }
        } else {
            Object.keys(obj).forEach((k) => {
                return newObj[k] = deepFlatten(obj[k], flatDoc, path + "_" + k);
            })
        }
        return newObj;
    }
    
    function OnUpdate(doc, meta) {
        if (doc.type !== "my_data_to_flatten") return;
    
        var flatDoc = {};
        deepFlatten(doc,flatDoc,"");
    
        // alias src_bkt to our source bucket. Since rev 6.5+ allowed to be in r/w mode
        dst_col[meta.id] = flatDoc;
    }
    
    function OnDelete(meta, options) {
        // filter
        if (!(meta.id.startsWith("my_data_to_flatten:"))) return;
    
        log("OnDelete expired=" + options.expired +" REM id: "+meta.id);
        try {
            delete dst_col[meta.id];
        } catch (e) {
            log("Error on delete: "+e+", id:",meta.id);
        }
    }
    INPUT: KEY my_data_to_flatten::1001
    
    {
      "type": "my_data_to_flatten",
      "id": 1001,
      "a_first_super_long_name_right_here": 111,
      "b": "my object",
      "c": "",
      "d": null,
      "f": {
        "v": 1,
        "x": "",
        "y": null,
        "m": {
          "a": "asd"
        }
      },
      "f2": {
        "v": 1,
        "x": "",
        "y": null,
        "m": {
          "a": "asd",
          "b": null,
          "c": null,
          "a_second_super_long_name_right_here": 222,
          "ary1": [
            null,
            1,
            null,
            2,
            null,
            3
          ],
          "ary2": [
            [
              1,
              2
            ],
            [
              3,
              4
            ],
            [
              5,
              null,
              6
            ],
            {
              "a": 1
            },
            {
              "b": 2
            },
            {
              "c": 3,
              "d": null
            },
            {
              "e": null
            },
            [
              null,
              null,
              null,
              null
            ]
          ]
        }
      },
      "a_third_super_long_name_right_here": {
        "x": 1,
        "y": 2,
        "z": null
      }
    }
    UPDATED/OUTPUT: KEY my_data_to_flatten::1001
    
    {
      "type": "my_data_to_flatten",
      "id": 1001,
      "a_first_super_long_name_right_here": 111,
      "b": "my object",
      "c": "",
      "d": null,
      "f_v": 1,
      "f_x": "",
      "f_y": null,
      "f_m_a": "asd",
      "f2_v": 1,
      "f2_x": "",
      "f2_y": null,
      "f2_m_a": "asd",
      "f2_m_b": null,
      "f2_m_c": null,
      "f2_m_a_second_super_long_name_right_here": 222,
      "f2_m_ary1_0": null,
      "f2_m_ary1_1": 1,
      "f2_m_ary1_2": null,
      "f2_m_ary1_3": 2,
      "f2_m_ary1_4": null,
      "f2_m_ary1_5": 3,
      "f2_m_ary2_0_0": 1,
      "f2_m_ary2_0_1": 2,
      "f2_m_ary2_1_0": 3,
      "f2_m_ary2_1_1": 4,
      "f2_m_ary2_2_0": 5,
      "f2_m_ary2_2_1": null,
      "f2_m_ary2_2_2": 6,
      "f2_m_ary2_3_a": 1,
      "f2_m_ary2_4_b": 2,
      "f2_m_ary2_5_c": 3,
      "f2_m_ary2_5_d": null,
      "f2_m_ary2_6_e": null,
      "f2_m_ary2_7_0": null,
      "f2_m_ary2_7_1": null,
      "f2_m_ary2_7_2": null,
      "f2_m_ary2_7_3": null,
      "a_third_super_long_name_right_here_x": 1,
      "a_third_super_long_name_right_here_y": 2,
      "a_third_super_long_name_right_here_z": null
    }