Given a listing of accounts, from a variety of applications, merge the accounts to create a listing of people.
Assumptions: If two accounts share an email then they were created by the same person If two names are the same they don't necessarily refer to the same person If the names differ when merging, pick one The accounts list will fit in memory
The input will be in json structure. Attached is an example accounts.json.
Please write a program in your language of choice, that 1: Reads and parses the accounts.json file attached 2: Merges the accounts 3: Prints the merged accounts to the console in Json structure
An account consists of
{
application: string,
emails: [string],
name: string
}
The person object structure is
{
applications: [string],
emails: [string],
name: string
}
Example:
Input:
[
{
"application": "x",
"emails": ["a", "b", "c"],
"name": "Person 1"
},
{
"application": "y",
"emails": ["c", "d"],
"name": "Person 1"
}
]Output:
[
{
"applications": ["x", "y"],
"emails": ["a", "b", "c", "d"],
"name": "Person 1"
}
]