Question: Add additional field to CSV records before posting

[Isabella Ramírez]

Hello,

First of all, thank you for this feature! It really saves a lot of time.

Here is my use case:

I am importing a csv file that looks like this:

title, id
title1, 1
title2, 2

I would like to add an extra CSV field before posting, so that the post request payload looks like this:

{
   title: title1,
   id: 1,
   company: 1,
},
{
  title: title2,
  id: 2, 
  company: 1,
},

The additional field is always a constant value that I need to send to my API endpoint to perform the post request.

Is it possible to achieve this with transform rows in config? Has anyone tried to do this before?

[Ben Winding]

Hi @irborrero,

That's correct, you can use the transformRows callback in the options, which returns a Promise containing the transformed rows. Yours might look like:

const options = {
  transformRows: (csvRows) => {
    const newRows = []; // new rows here!
    return newRows;
  }
}

You could also modify your Dataprovider to handle this too. Let me know how you go :)
Ben

[Isabella Ramírez]

Hi @benwinding

Yes it worked!

Did this:

const config: ImportConfig = {
  transformRows: (csvRows: any[]) => {
    const transformedCsvRows = [];
    csvRows.map((row) => {
      row.companyId = companyId;
      transformedCsvRows.push(row);
    });
    return transformedCsvRows;
  },
};

Thanks :)