Bridge Blocks are your toolkit for crafting efficient and customized data transformations. By assembling and configuring these blocks, you can tailor your data processing to meet the specific needs of your project, streamlining your data management.

Bridge Blocks are the building blocks of Bridges, and they are the key to fetching, transforming, and manipulating data. These versatile components can be assembled in various combinations to create Bridges that perform powerful data manipulations. Bridge Blocks can have both properties are inputs, properties are parameters which are used to configure the block, inputs allow using another bridge block as an input to a bridge block. Bridge Blocks come in several types, each tailored to specific data handling tasks.

* Denotes a required input or property

Types of Blocks

Replace

This block searches for any matching strings within the input and replaces it with the provided string. It has a single input representing the string on which the replace operation will be performed.

Inputs

Input* The string for which to look for matches in.
Match* The string to match on.
To* The string to replace any matches with.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Regex

For advanced users, the Regex Block allows the use of powerful regular expressions to match and replace text within the input. Like the Replace Block, it also has a single input representing the string on which the regular expression operation will be applied.

Inputs

Input* The string for which to look for matches in.
Match* The string to match on.
To* The string to replace any matches with.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Path

The Path Block fetches a specific field or element from the input data, allowing you to extract the information you need.

Inputs

Input* The object to select the a property from.

Properties

Path* The path to the property of the object you wish to output.
Optional Whether the field is optional, if this is true, an error will not be raised when the bridge runs a the specified path cannot be found. Defaults to false.
Empty String as None Whether to treat empty strings as though the property doesn't exist at the specified path. Defaults to false.
Delimiter Use a delimiter if you have a string input but wish to output an array.

Value

A Value Block provides a fixed input value that can be utilised as an input to other blocks, adding flexibility to your data transformations.

Properties

Value* The value to use as the output.

Output

The Output Block serves as the ending point for a field, with a single input representing the final output of a transformation.

Inputs

Input* The data to output.

Join

For combining data from multiple sources, the Join Block concatenates multiple blocks together. It accepts multiple inputs, enabling you to string together various data manipulation operations in the desired order.

Input

Inputs* One or more blocks to combine into a single string.

Properties

Delimiter The string to use as a delimiter. Defaults to a comma.
Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Case

The Case Block is used for modifying the casing on an input string. It supports various casing transformations, including camel, kebab, lower, snake, title, and upper, allowing you to format text as needed.

Input

Input* The input to change the casing of.

Properties

Case The casing to use.
Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Special Character

The Special Characters Block removes any characters that are not alphanumeric characters, dashes or spaces from the input string.

Input

Input* The input to remove special characters from.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Hash

The Hash Block generates an MD5 hash of the input data. This feature is particularly handy for creating unique IDs from names and other data.

Input

Input* The input to hash.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Data

Retrieves XML or JSON data used to be used as input. If no inputs or properties are set the default is to use the body of the request. Setting the inputs and properties however allows for retrieval of data from remote sources.

Input

Url The URL where the data can be fetched from.
Header Values An array of values for the headers. These will be used to set the headers in conjunction with the respective header keys property.
Body The body of the request to fetch the data.

Properties

HTTP Request Method The HTTP request method to use to fetch the data. Defaults to GET.
Header Keys An array of keys for the headers. These will be used to set the headers in conjunction with the respective header values property.

Field

Outputs a field from an input object.

Input

Input* The input object to fetch the field from.

Properties

Path* The path to the field of the object you wish to output.
Optional Whether the field is optional, if this is true, an error will not be raised when the bridge runs a the specified path cannot be found. Defaults to false.

Filter

Filters an array to only include items that are in the matches list.

Input

Input* The input to filter.
Matches* One or more blocks to positively match on the input.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

First

Outputs the first item in a list.

Input

Input* The input to retrieve the first item of.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Sort

Sorts an array in ascending order.

Input

Input* The input to sort.

Properties

Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Base64

Encodes or decodes Base64.

Input

Input* The input to encode or decode.

Properties

Mode* Whether to encode or decode.
Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Date/Time

Provides various functions for retrieving or manipulating date and time.

Input

Input* The input to manipulate date/time on.
Value Used when the mode is set to plus as the value to add to the input date/time.

Properties

Mode* Used to specify the type of date/time operation to perform. Either epoch, plus or current.
Path If the input is an object, allows you to specify a path to the property of the object which should be used as the input.

Transform

Provides function for adding properties to objects.

Input

Input* The input object to manipulate.
Value* The value of the property to add.

Properties

Path* The path which to append the new property.