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<h1 id="javascript-transformation-service">JavaScript Transformation Service</h1>
<p>Transform an input to an output using JavaScript.</p>
<p>It expects the transformation rule to be read from a file which is stored under the <code class="highlighter-rouge">transform</code> folder.
To organize the various transformations, one should use subfolders.</p>
<h2 id="example">Example</h2>
<p>Let’ s assume we have received a string containing <code class="highlighter-rouge">foo bar baz</code> and we’ re looking for a length of the last word (<code class="highlighter-rouge">baz</code>).</p>
<p>transform/getValue.js:</p>
<div class="highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>(function(i) {
var array = i.split(" ");
return array[array.length - 1].length;
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