Booleans to 0 and 1s

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Hi, I have an array of booleans which I try to change to 0s and 1s.

I have tried to use the change fucntion do replace a boolean to a number.
it doesnt do the transformation as the output is still a boolean.
How can I accomplish this?

thank you!

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In a function

msg.payload = msg.payload.map(b => b ? 1 : 0)
return msg

in a flow...

split -> switch (ROW1: payload is true?, ROW2: otherwise) -> change -> join

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Or have a split before your change node and a join after (switch not necessary)

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but much more visually descriptive :wink:

5

Three cheers for easily understood code! :crazy_face:

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Working great!

thank you very much!

7

In fairness, it was deliberately terse to encourage a better visual approach :wink:

If i were encouraging use of function node, I would have wrote...

// first ensure the payload is an array
if (Array.isArray(msg.payload)) {
  // loop every element of the payload array
  for (let i = 0; i < msg.payload.length; i++) {
     // if the element of the array is boolean true, set it to 1
     if (msg.payload[i] === true) {
       msg.payload[i] = 1
     } else {
       // otherwise set it to 0
       msg.payload[i] = 0
     }
  }
  return msg // send the msg to next node
}
node.error('payload is not an array', msg) // inform user of error
return null // halt flow
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You can also use JSONata in a change node and the $number function
e.g.

[{"id":"a3166e7879679525","type":"inject","z":"d1395164b4eec73e","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"zone2","payload":"[true,false]","payloadType":"json","x":300,"y":1600,"wires":[["5c88e750c1328b74"]]},{"id":"5c88e750c1328b74","type":"change","z":"d1395164b4eec73e","name":"","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"payload","pt":"msg","to":"$$.payload.$number($)","tot":"jsonata"}],"action":"","property":"","from":"","to":"","reg":false,"x":520,"y":1600,"wires":[["303927168087d09b"]]},{"id":"303927168087d09b","type":"debug","z":"d1395164b4eec73e","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":710,"y":1560,"wires":[]}]

expression

$$.payload.$number($)
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