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JSON to Multidimensional Javascript Object

I'm loading an external JSON file into javascript, the JSON file looks like this:
[
{
"name":"Apple",
"year":8,
"records_lost":12367232
},
{
"name":"178.com",
"year":7,
"records_lost":10000000
},
{
"name":"Accendo Insurance Co. ",
"year":7,
"records_lost":175350
}
]
Eventually, I want to access the data via a Javascript object like this (don't mind the syntax). The point is that name will be a parent with its own meta-data.
"Apple":
"year":8,
"records_lost":12367232
"178.com":
"year":7,
"records_lost":10000000
This is the code I've already written for this part, which doesn't make name parent yet and only saves the last row of the JSON file into the array (+= instead of = would fix this, but delivers ugly values, obviously).
function initJSON() {
loadJSON(function(response) {
var JSONParse = JSON.parse(response);
var i;
for (i in JSONParse) {
JSONdata.name.i = JSONParse[i].name;
JSONdata.year = JSONParse[i].year;
JSONdata.recl = JSONParse[i].records_lost;
}
});
}
initJSON();
Thanks in forward.

Try utilizing Array.prototype.map() , delete operator
var data = [{
"name": "Apple",
"year": 8,
"records_lost": 12367232
}, {
"name": "178.com",
"year": 7,
"records_lost": 10000000
}, {
"name": "Accendo Insurance Co. ",
"year": 7,
"records_lost": 175350
}];
var res = data.map(function(val, key) {
var obj = {};
obj[val.name] = val;
delete obj[val.name].name;
return obj
});
document.getElementsByTagName("pre")[0].textContent = JSON.stringify(res, null, 4);
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it should be :
var i;
for (i in JSONParse) {
JSONdata.name = i.name;
JSONdata.year = i.year;
JSONdata.recl = i.records_lost;
}
unless your loop was different:
var i;
for (i = 0; i < JSONParse.length; i++) {
JSONdata.name = JSONParse[i].name;
JSONdata.year = JSONParse[i].year;
JSONdata.recl = JSONParse[i].records_lost;
}

Building Array in order of income objects

I'm getting an XML and parsing it, saving it to array, the problems is that I get objects in this order:
temp1.ID = 15
temp1.name = "Dan"
temp1.phone = "32332"
temp2.ID = 12
temp2.name = "Test"
temp2.phone = 53463
temp3.ID = 2
temp3.name = "Tom"
temp3.phone = 12443
.
.
.
.
Object - its an objects that I get inside a loop while parsing XML
What I try is to save them in the same order I started to read them : Array: [temp1,temp2,temp3]
But The result of the next function is : Array: [temp3,temp2,temp1]
the function:
this.mytempect = [];
for (var i = 0; i < xml.length; i++) {
var temp = {};
temp.ID = parseXmlByTag(xml[i], "ID");
temp.name = parseXmlByTag(xml[i], "name");
temp.phone = parseXmlByTag(xml[i], "phone");
if (this.mytempect [temp .ID] == null) {
this.mytempect [temp .ID] = [];
}
this.mytempect [temp .ID].push(obj);
}
Before I save each object I check if I need to create for him a new Key or to add to existing one, in the end I get something like this:
I need to save the order in which I'm getting them so I'll save them in the order I entered them

If I understand your question here's what I think you should be doing. You seem to be confusing objects and arrays: mytempect needs to be an object if you want to store arrays against a key set by the ID.
Following your example, objects with the same key are assigned to the same array (identified by that key in the object) in the order in which they are read.
// create an object, not an array
this.mytempect = {};
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
var temp = {};
temp.ID = arr[i].ID;
temp.name = arr[i].name;
temp.phone = arr[i].phone;
// Don't check for null here because `this.mytempect[temp.ID]` might not exist
if (!this.mytempect[temp.ID]) {
this.mytempect[temp.ID] = [];
}
this.mytempect[temp.ID].push(temp);
}
DEMO
The demo produces an object with one object in an array under key 15, two under 12 and one under 2:
{
"2": [
{
"ID": 2,
"name": "Tom",
"phone": 12443
}
],
"12": [
{
"ID": 12,
"name": "Test",
"phone": 53463
},
{
"ID": 12,
"name": "Test",
"phone": 53462
}
],
"15": [
{
"ID": 15,
"name": "Dan",
"phone": "32332"
}
]
}
Note: you can't order the object in any way.

Perhaps you're looking for something like this
var mytempect = [],
dict = {},
i,
tmp;
for (i = 0; i < xml.length; ++i) {
tmp = {
ID: parseXmlByTag(xml[i], "ID"),
name: parseXmlByTag(xml[i], "name"),
phone: parseXmlByTag(xml[i], "phone")
};
if (!(tmp.ID in dict)) {
mytempect.push(dict[tmp.ID] = []);
}
dict[tmp.ID].push(tmp); // use fact Objects ByRef to add item
}
dict = null; // cleanup
The Array mytempect will now have indices 0, 1, 2, etc containing Arrays of all Objects which have the same ID. With your sample data you will get
mytempect[0][0].ID === 15;
mytempect[1][0].ID === 12;
mytempect[2][0].ID === 2;

jquery - required help in convert json to javascript array

I have json data like this.
[{"data":"85"},{"data":"83"},{"data":"75"},{"data":"87"},{"data":"86"},{"data":"0"},{"data":"84"}].
I wanted to remove the "data": and curly brackets.
I wanted the output to be like this.
[85,83,75,87,86,0,84]
Someone please help me on converting it to like that.

You tagged your question with jQuery, so heres an answer using it:
var input = [{ "data": "85" }, { "data": "83" }, { "data": "75" }, { "data": "87" }, { "data": "86" }, { "data": "0" }, { "data": "84" }];
var output = $.map(input, function (e) { return e.data; });

var newArray = [];
jsonData.forEach(function(i) {
newArray.push(i.data);
});
Where jsonData is the name of the variable storing your JSON data.

Loop through the array and extract data value like this
var obj= [{"data":"85"},{"data":"83"},{"data":"75"},{"data":"87"},{"data":"86"},{"data":"0"},{"data":"84"}];
var arr = [];
for ( var i = 0; i < obj.length;i++){
arr.push(obj[i].data);
}

Please check the following code.
var myMessage = [{"data":"85"},{"data":"83"},{"data":"75"},{"data":"87"},{"data":"86"},{"data":"0"},{"data":"84"}];
var obj2 = eval(myMessage);
var myArray = new Array();
for(var i in obj2){
myArray[i] = obj2[i].data;
}
console.log(myArray);
Cheers Subh

var msg = '[{"data":"85"},{"data":"83"},{"data":"75"},{"data":"87"},{"data":"86"},{"data":"0"},{"data":"84"}]';
var msgObject = JSON.parse(msg);
var output = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < msgObject.length; i++) {
output.push(msgObject[i].data);
}
alert(JSON.stringify(outputObject));

How to push elements in JSON from javascript array

I want to add javascript array values into JSON values object. The other element is also replaced my element like recipients, subject, message. I got Json like:
Below is my code.
var BODY = {
"recipients": {
"values": [
]
},
"subject": title,
"body": message
}
var values = [];
for (var ln = 0; ln < names.length; ln++) {
var item1 = {
"person": {
"_path": "/people/"+names[ln],
},
};
values.push(item1);
}
BODY = JSON.stringify({values: values});
alert(BODY);

I think you want to make objects from array and combine it with an old object (BODY.recipients.values), if it's then you may do it using $.extent (because you are using jQuery/tagged) method after prepare the object from array
var BODY = {
"recipients": {
"values": []
},
"subject": 'TitleOfSubject',
"body": 'This is the message body.'
}
var values = [],
names = ['sheikh', 'muhammed', 'Answer', 'Uddin', 'Heera']; // for testing
for (var ln = 0; ln < names.length; ln++) {
var item1 = {
"person": { "_path": "/people/"+names[ln] }
};
values.push(item1);
}
// Now merge with BODY
$.extend(BODY.recipients.values, values);
DEMO.

If you want to stick with the way you're populating the values array,
you can then assign this array like so:
BODY.values = values;
after the loop.
It should look like this:
var BODY = {
"recipients": {
"values": [
]
},
"subject": title,
"body": message
}
var values = [];
for (var ln = 0; ln < names.length; ln++) {
var item1 = {
"person": {
"_path": "/people/"+names[ln],
},
};
values.push(item1);
}
BODY.values = values;
alert(BODY);
JSON.stringify() will be useful once you pass it as parameter for an AJAX call.
Remember: the values array in your BODY object is different from the var values = [].
You must assign that outer values[] to BODY.values. This is one of the good things about OOP.

You can directly access BODY.values:
for (var ln = 0; ln < names.length; ln++) {
var item1 = {
"person": {
"_path": "/people/"+names[ln],
},
};
BODY.values.push(item1);
}

var arr = [ 'a', 'b', 'c'];
arr.push('d'); // insert as last item

What is the correct way to concatenate a string?

var d=getEntity( {"Division":
{
"oddTerms":
[
{
"entity": "Sunshine",
"Sunshine": [
{
"count": 2,
"entity": "Dodge"
},
{
"count": 1,
"entity": "Dodge Avenger"
},
]
}
]
}});
I want to traverse through the json string and the the entity names Dodge and Dodge Avenger. Ive used the following method
for (var k in h.Division.oddTerms)
{
s=h.Division.oddTerms[k].entity;
h.Division.oddTerms[k].+s+.entity;
}
But I do think this its not the correct methd to concatenate as it is not wrking.. anyone knows the correct format?

oddTerms is an Array, not an Object. For arrays in JavaScript you need to use a for loop with a counter instead of iterating through the elements:
var concatedString = '';
for (var k=0; k<h.Division.oddTerms.length;k++)
{
// Get the name of the entity we want to collect the entity terms of
var entityName =h.Division.oddTerms[k].entity;
// iterate through all the instances of each entity
for(var j=0; j<h.Division.oddTerms[k][entityName].length;j++){
concatedString += h.Division.oddTerms[k][entityName][j].entity;
}
}

var entityName = "",
arrTerms = [],
outputTemplate = '{"%entityName":[%terms]}',
h = {
"Division":
{
"oddTerms":
[
{
"entity": "Sunshine",
"Sunshine": [
{
"count": 2,
"entity": "Dodge"
},
{
"count": 1,
"entity": "Dodge Avenger"
},
]
}
]
}
};
for (var i = 0; i < h.Division.oddTerms.length; i++)
{
entityName=h.Division.oddTerms[i].entity; // "Sunshine"
terms = h.Division.oddTerms[i][entityName];
for (var j = 0; j < terms.length; j++) {
arrTerms.push('"' + terms[j].entity + '"');
}
}
// This will give you '{"Sunshine":["Dodge","Dodge Avenger"]}':
console.log(outputTemplate.replace('%entityName', entityName).replace('%terms', arrTerms.join(",")));
Edit:
Just some more on this.
JSON can be a bit confusing to work with if you're not used to working with JS and object and array "literals". In JS you can define objects and arrays in a number of ways, but the easiest (and the most preferred, by many developers) is with these literals.
Here's an example of an object:
var myObj = {
"some prop":"some value",
"anotherProp":"another value"
}
You can look up the members of myObj in several ways:
myObj.anotherProp // "another value"
myObj["some prop"] // you have to use this form if the property name has a space in it
For looping through the contents of an array, use the second form. For example, this won't work:
for (var strPropName in myObj) {
console.log(myObj.strPropName); // This won't work!
}
Instead, you should loop through the properties like this:
for (var strPropName in myObj) {
if (myObj.hasOwnProperty(strPropName)) {
console.log(myObj[strPropName]);
}
}
The if block is optional, but you'll avoid potential problems if you always include this in your code. It's also required by some validators.
Now, here's an example of an array:
var myArray = ["some value", "anotherValue"];
You access these with a numeric index:
myArray[0] // "some value"
myArray[1] // "anotherValue"
myArray[2] // undefined
And you can loop through them:
for (var index = 0; index < myArray.length; index++) {
console.log(myArray[index]);
}
You can nest objects inside arrays:
myArray = [{},{},{}];
And you can nest arrays inside objects:
myObject = {"arr1":[], "arr2":[], "arr3":[]}