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how to export complex json to excel with alasql

I have a json like this (there might be some syntax errors, I did extract and rewrite some private data)
"todo-items": [{
"id": 3511710,
"company-name": "company1",
"author" : "Jon Doe",
"tags": [{
"id": 10101,
"name": "2.Marketing Sales",
"color": "#f78234"
}],
"creation-date": 20160101
}, {
"id": 3511474,
"company-name": "company1",
"author" : "Jon Don",
"tags": [{
"id": 10101,
"name": "2.Marketing Sales",
"color": "#f78234"
}, {
"id": 10103,
"name": "4.Automotive",
"color": "#9b7cdb"
}],
"creation-date": 20160101
}, {
"id": 3511478,
"company-name": "company1",
"author" : "Peter Jon Doe",
"tags": [{
"id": 10101,
"name": "2.Marketing Sales",
"color": "#f78234"
}, {
"id": 9706,
"name": "3.sales",
"color": "#37ced0"
}, {
"id": 9562,
"name": "3.IT",
"color": "#37ced0"
}],
"creation-date": 20160101
}]
and I use alasql with xlsx.core libraries to export this to excel file.
For first I remove STATUS from original json (provided by teamwork API) and then I change JSON to javascript array
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: requrl,
headers: {"Authorization": "BASIC " + window.btoa(key + ":xxx")},
success: function(data) {
delete data.STATUS;
//alert(data);
//console.log(data);
var arr = $.map(data, function(el) { return el });
//console.log(arr);
alasql("SELECT * INTO XLSX('test.xlsx',{headers:true}) FROM ? ",[arr]);
},
error: function(response) {
alert(response);
}
});
this works nice and I can my json extract as excel file
but I have issues with tags objects in this json..when I change it to array and then save it in excel, all columns are ok except tags, where I see just [object][object]
Could you help me how to get these tags also into correct array? The best would be one tag = one column in excel
edit:
this is desired output - max # of tags in JSON will define number of columns tags (doesnt matter if it is tags tags tags or tags tags2 tags3)

^How to parse multiple JSON arrays received from server?

Here is my Json Data received from Server:
[
{"Name":"A"},
{"Name":"B"},
{"Name":"C"},
{"Name":null}
]
[
{"Name":null},
{"Name":"D"},
{"Name":null}
]
[
{...},
{...}
]
How do I parse it using using JQUERY in AJAX success attribute?
Here is my Ajax code:
$.ajax({
url: '#.php',
type: 'post',
async: false,
data: {},
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data){
var str = JSON.stringify(data);
var obj = JSON.parse(str);
for(var i=0; i< data.length;i++)
{
alert(data[i].Name);
}
},
complete: function(xhr,status){
alert(status);
},
error: function(xhr){
alert("An error occured: " + xhr.status + " " + xhr.statusText );
alert("An error occured. Please Try Again");
}
})
This code is not working and giving parser error on complete.
I want to Display all the Names received.
Please Help.

your data received from the server are not valid JSON, if it was, it would be
something like :
[
[{
"Name": "A"
}, {
"Name": "B"
}, {
"Name": "C"
}, {
"Name": null
}],
[{
"Name": null
}, {
"Name": "D"
}, {
"Name": null
}]
]
that would be even easier to parse:
[{
"Name": "A"
}, {
"Name": "B"
}, {
"Name": "C"
}, {
"Name": null
}, {
"Name": null
}, {
"Name": "D"
}, {
"Name": null
}]

The data returned by your server does not respect JSON syntax.
In order to have a proper JSON structure, there should be only one parent object and not multiple arrays.
If you can modify your server's output, consider the following alternatives:
Creating a parent array:
[ your_arrays ]
then access to data[0] to retrieve your arrays in your success function.
Creating a parent object:
{myArrays : your_arrays}
then access to data.myArrays in your success function.

how to deserialize an array of data?

please help to bring the console dataset.
I do Ajax request and receive a response date as an array:
[{"pk": 2, "model": "app_accounts.userprofile", "fields": {"phone": "21", "other": "<p>qqqqqqdfgdfg</p><p><b>fdg</b></p>", "user_permissions": [], "avatar": "", "skype": "dfsdf", "gender": 2, "groups": []}}]
the problem is that the console does not work and bring
data.pk
and
data.model
screenshot here
$.ajax({
url: "/search_author/",
type: 'POST',
dataType:"json",
data: {
"author": $('#formSearchAuthorWord').val(),
"csrfmiddlewaretoken": $.csrf_token
},
success: function(data) {
console.log(data)
console.log(data.pk)
console.log(data.model)
}
});

That's because it's inside the array.. access them like:
data[0].pk
data[0].model
"[]" brackets represents an array and "{}" an object.
See the DEMO here

Breaking Out JSON Result Into Localstorage Key/Value Pairs

I have a valid JSON result:
{
"metadata": [
{
"name": "md1",
"value": "blah1"
},
{
"name": "md2",
"value": "blah2"
},
{
"name": "tee2",
"value": "blah3"
}
],
"subdata1": [
{
"name": "sd1_1",
"value": "blah1_1"
},
{
"name": "sd1_2",
"value": "blah1_2"
},
{
"name": "sd1_3",
"value": "blah1_3"
},
{
"name": "sd1_4",
"value": "blah1_1"
}
],
"subdata2": [
{
"name": "sd2_1",
"value": "blah2_1"
},
{
"name": "sd2_2",
"value": "blah2_2"
},
{
"name": "sd2_3",
"value": "blah2_3"
}
]
}
coming in via a successful jQuery .ajax() call:
$.ajax({
url: 'test.json',
type: 'get',
datatype: 'json',
processData: false,
success: function(data) { //do something...};
It's relatively easy to blob the entire result into a value associated with an overall key:
localStorage.setItem('newtest', data);
This would save the entirety of my JSON response as a value with a key called "newtest". But suppose I want each array's descriptor as the key name and the associated array as the value? In my example, that would give me three key/value pairs, with each array saved as a separate string value associated with keys named "metadata," "subdata1" and "subdata2", respectively. I've done a great deal of searching but have not come across the correct approach for this. Any help towards a solution would be greatly appreciated -- thank you for your attention and assistance.

You can do a for loop and stringify the objects.
$.ajax({
url: 'test.json',
type: 'get',
datatype: 'json',
processData: false,
success: function(data) {
for(var key in data){
localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(data[key]));
}
}
});
Then parse when you get them
JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("metadata"));

parse facebook json javascript

I am using javascript api to get facebook comments.
i am getting the following json result , but how can i parse them to use on my page ?
{
"id": "1234567891_2823098717038_3160191",
"from": {
"name": "User",
"id": "1234567891"
},
"message": "comment only...",
"can_remove": true,
"created_time": "2012-05-05T07:43:11+0000"
},
{
"id": "1234567891_2823098717038_3160281",
"from": {
"name": "User",
"id": "1234567891"
},
"message": "just another comment...",
"can_remove": true,
"created_time": "2012-05-05T08:14:17+0000"
},
{
"id": "1234567891_2823098717038_3160336",
"from": {
"name": "user2",
"id": "56265654845454"
},
"message": "congratz dear :)",
"can_remove": true,
"created_time": "2012-05-05T08:29:05+0000"
}
],
"paging": {
"next": "http://link.dddd"
}
}
How can i loop through this and display the contents ?
jQuery solution is acceptable.
Thank you.

Use JQuery.parseJSON: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseJSON/

assoc_data = jQuery.param(response); //where response is your json
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "submit_fb_data.php",
data: assoc_data,
success: function(data) {
//etc
}
});
make sure you use a >=1.4 jquery version