Short and handy Okta Workflows tips and tricks. Read the full series.

APIs often return key-value data as a list of {name, value} objects instead of a clean object you can reference by key. This tip shows how to turn a list of key-value pairs into an object.

How the flow works

1. The Text-Compose card creates a sample JSON string from the following input:

[
  { "name": "department", "value": "Engineering" },
  { "name": "costCenter", "value": "CC-4521" },
  { "name": "employeeId", "value": "E10293" }
]

2. The JSON-Parse card converts that string into a JSON array of objects.
3. The first List-Pluck card extracts the name value from each object, producing a keys list: ["department", "costCenter", "employeeId"]
4. The second List-Pluck card extracts the value from each object, producing a values list: ["Engineering", "CC-4521", "E10293"]
5. The Object-Zip takes the keys list and the values list and pairs them up by position into a single object.

The final JSON object looks like this:

{
  "department": "Engineering",
  "costCenter": "CC-4521",
  "employeeId": "E10293"
}

Okta Workflows resources

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