Object Class

Using class dsobject you combine one or more attributes into a nested JSON object. A Confluence page can, for example, contain a table which is converted into a JSON array of objects, where rows are array elements and cells are object attributes:

<table class="dsattr-participants">
  ...
  <tr class="dsobject">
    ...
    <td class="dsattr-lastname">
      <ac:placeholder>Last name</ac:placeholder>
    </td>
    <td class="dsattr-firstname">
      <ac:placeholder>First name</ac:placeholder>
    </td>
    ...
  </tr>
  ...
</table>

The resulting JSON array:

{
  "participants": [
    ...
    {
      ...
      "lastname": "Doe",
      "firstname": "John",
      ...
    }
    ...
  ]
}

If an attribute contains only one object than array is not created:

{
  "participants": {
    ...
    "lastname": "Doe",
    "firstname": "John",
    ...
  }
}

This rule in fact applies to all data types: if a table cell contains plain text in a single paragraph than it is converted into a text string, and if it contains two or more paragraphs of text than the value is a string array. Likewise several numbers are converted into an array of numbers, several dates – into an array of dates and so on.