What's the best "Toddle" way to deal with heterogenous arrays returned from a data source?

alice_alexandra

6 days ago

I am working with the Notion API, which returns each "block" as an individual item in an array. Each block has a "type" (e.g., heading_1, paragraph, bulleted_list_item) that defines parts of its inner structure.

So, when working in Toddle, I can very easily work with the first item in the array, but I don't know how to easily access the second item of the array to build a formula around it uniquely.

Obviously, I can just move my data around on the backend, so that the first item keeps becoming the one I need to work with, but this feels more painful than the usual Toddle experience.

Any advice?
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alice_alexandra

6 days ago

I think I answered my own question, using "Filter"—but let me know if there's a better way!
Tod

6 days ago

Great energy @alice_alexandra! Your continuous contribution to the toddle Community just made you advance to Community Level 2!
Andreas Møller

6 days ago

You can use get to extract any item by index
alice_alexandra

6 days ago

Thanks, @Andreas Møller but I more mean inside of an already repeating item. It's as if I need to temporarily access a different "parent" item in the leftmost block, just to see some properties that don't exist on the current array item.
Andreas Møller

6 days ago

No we don’t have a mechanism for that at the moment but it’s something we have been discussing how to solve 🙂
alice_alexandra

6 days ago

Okay, thanks. Appreciate it!

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