If I receive data from a server in plain JSON that looks like this:
{
"f223dc3c-946f-4da3-8e77-e8c1fe4d241b": {
"name": "Dave",
"age": 16,
"jobs": [{
"description": "Sweep the floor",
"difficulty": 4
},{
"description": "Iron the washing",
"difficulty": 6
}]
},
"84af889a-8fc9-499b-a6ea-97e7a483130c": {
...
}
}
Do I need to loop through all the jobs and convert them to Maps, then convert each object's jobs into a List, then the entire thing into a Map?
Or does ImmutableJS do this all recursively for me?
There is Immutable.fromJS() designed for exactly that.
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I'm trying to store in MongoDB one document with an object with the properties I want to map latter. My idea it's to create a function that will receive 2 params. First the object where I got to find the mapping, and second the object where I have to take the info from.
For example I want to store this JSON (that would be the first parameter in the function):
{
"name": "client.firstName",
"surname": "client.surname",
"age": "client.age",
"skills": [
{
"skillName": "client.skills[index].name",
"level": "client.skills[index].levelNumber",
"categories": [
{
"categoryName": "client.skills[index].categories[index].name",
"isImportant": "client.skills[index].categories[index].important"
}
]
}
]
}
And the second paramenter would be something like this (it's the object where you find the information.
{
"client": {
"firstName": "Jake",
"surname": "Long",
"age": 20,
"skills": [
{
"name": "Fly",
"level": 102,
"categories": [
{
"name": "air",
"important": true
},
{
"name": "superpower",
"important": false
}
]
},
{
"name": "FastSpeed",
"level": 163,
"categories": [
{
"name": "superpower",
"important": false
}
]
}
]
}
}
The idea it's: with de paths that I have in the first object, find it in the second one.. The problem I found it's when I have arrays, because when I defined the mapping rules I don't know how many positions will have the array I want to map. So in the mapping object (first) I'll only define the path but I'll not put it with the same lenght of the secondone because I don't know how much it will have.
Basically, I have a really large JSON file I need to parse, and while searching, I came across this answer.
The only problem is I don't know how to format my JSON array into a single object per line. Is there a straightforward Javascript/Ubuntu way to do this? (I've used jq in the past and it's pretty good for minifying json files, for example)
My JSON file looks something like this
[
{
"country":"monrovia",
"street" :"grove street",
"where" : "home"
},
{
"country": "uk",
"street": "diagon alley",
"where": "mystery"
},
{
...
}
]
But I need it to look like this
[{"country":"monrovia", "street": "grove street", "where": "home" },
{"country": "uk", "street": "diagon alley", "where": "mystery happens"},
{...}]
What you can do is parse the json array by using the JSON.stringify Method like so
// This can be the array of json
var obj = {
"name": "John Doe",
"age": 29,
"location": "Denver Colorado",
};
// stringify the json
var result = JSON.stringify(obj);
// see the output
console.log(result);
jq to the rescue once again! Here is what I needed.
And it's apparently referred to as JSONL.
An even better option is 'new-line delimited JSON' (ndjson). The Javascript implementation of the same (with streams!) is here
I have following JSON data but I don't know how to iterate through it and read its all values:
var students = {
"student1": {
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith",
"age": 24,
"subject": [{
"name": "IT",
"marks": 85
},
{
"name": "Maths",
"marks": 75
},
{
"name": "English",
"marks": 60
}
]
},
"student2": {
"first_name": "David",
"last_name": "Silva",
"age": 22,
"subject": [{
"name": "IT",
"marks": 85
},
{
"name": "Maths",
"marks": 75
},
{
"name": "English",
"marks": 60
}
]
}
};
I would like to use following methods to do the needful:
Using for in loop
Using simple for loop
Using $.each in jQuery
I will prefer to display above values in <ul> <li> nicely formatted.
Also, please suggest me what will be look of above JSON data if I put it in an external .json file?
You can use for in loop to iterate over the object, as it iterates over the properties of an object in an arbitrary order, and needs to use .hasOwnProperty, unless inherited properties want to be shown.
Now about accessing the object, let's say I have a JSON like
var myJson={name:"john",age:22,email:"email#domain.com"};
and I need to access the value of name i would simply use . operator using the myJson variable i.e console.log(myJson.name) will output john. because it will be treated as an object, now if I make a little change and make the object like below
var myJson=[{name:"john",age:22,email:"email#domain.com"}];
now if you try to access the value of the property name with the same statement above you will get undefined because the [] will now treat it as an object(JSON) with an array of 1 person or a JSON Array, now if you access it like console.log(myJson[0].name) it will print john in console what if there was more than one person in the array? then it will look like following
var myJson=[
{name:"john",age:22,email:"john#domain.com"},
{name:"nash",age:25,email:"nash#domain.com"}
];
console.log(myJson[0].name) will print john and console.log(myJson[1].name) will print nash so as I mentioned in the start that you should use for in loop for iterating over an object and if we want to print all the names of the person in the JSON Array it will be like.
for(var person in myJson){
console.log(myJson[person].name, myJson[person].age, myJson[person].email);
}
it will output in the console like below
john, 22, john#domain.com
nash, 25, nash#domain.com
I have tried to keep it simple so that you understand you can look into for in and hasOwnProperty, in your case you have a nested object in which property/key subject is an array so if I want to access the first_name of student1 i will write students.student1.first_name and if I want to print the name of the first subject of student1 I will write students.student1.subject[0].name
Below is a sample script to print all the students along with their subjects and marks and personal information since you JSON is nested I am using a nested for in, although Nested iterations are not necessarily a bad thing, even many well-known algorithms rely on them. But you have to be extremely cautious what you execute in the in the nested loops.
For the sake of understanding and keeping the given example of json object, i am using the same to make a snippet. Hope it helps you out
var students = {
"student1": {
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith",
"age": 24,
"subject": [{
"name": "IT",
"marks": 85
},
{
"name": "Maths",
"marks": 75
},
{
"name": "English",
"marks": 60
}
]
},
"student2": {
"first_name": "David",
"last_name": "Silva",
"age": 22,
"subject": [{
"name": "IT",
"marks": 85
},
{
"name": "Maths",
"marks": 75
},
{
"name": "English",
"marks": 60
}
]
}
};
$("#print").on('click', function() {
for (var student in students) {
console.log(students[student].first_name + '-' + students[student].last_name);
for (var subject in students[student].subject) {
console.log(students[student].subject[subject].name, students[student].subject[subject].marks);
}
}
setTimeout('console.clear()', 5000);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="button" id="print" value="print-now">
I am working with facebook JS SDK which returns user's information in JSON format. I know how to get the response like response.email which returns email address. But how to get an element from a nested array object? Example: user's education history may contain multiple arrays and each array will have an element such as "name" of "school". I want to get the element from the last array of an object.
This is a sample JSON I got:-
"education": [
{
"school": {
"id": "162285817180560",
"name": "Jhenaidah** School"
},
"type": "H**hool",
"year": {
"id": "14404**5610606",
"name": "2011"
},
"id": "855**14449421"
},
{
"concentration": [
{
"id": "15158**968",
"name": "Sof**ering"
},
{
"id": "20179020**7859",
"name": "Dig**ty"
}
],
"school": {
"id": "10827**27428",
"name": "Univer**g"
},
"type": "College",
"id": "9885**826013"
},
{
"concentration": [
{
"id": "108196**810",
"name": "Science"
}
],
"school": {
"id": "2772**996993",
"name": "some COLLEGE NAME I WANT TO GET"
},
"type": "College",
"year": {
"id": "1388*****",
"name": "2013"
},
"id": "8811215**16"
}]
Let's say I want to get "name": "some COLLEGE NAME I WANT TO GET" from the last array. How to do that with Javascript? I hope I could explain my problem. Thank you
Here is a JsFiddle Example
var json = '{}' // your data;
// convert to javascript object:
var obj = JSON.parse(json);
// get last item in array:
var last = obj.education[obj.education.length - 1].school.name;
// result: some COLLEGE NAME I WANT TO GET
If your json above was saved to an object called json, you could access the school name "some COLLEGE NAME I WANT TO GET" with the following:
json.education[2].school.name
If you know where that element is, then you can just select it as already mentioned by calling
var obj = FACEBOOK_ACTION;
obj.education[2].school.name
If you want to select specifically the last element, then use something like this:
obj.education[ obj.education.length - 1 ].scool.name
Try this,
if (myData.hasOwnProperty('merchant_id')) {
// do something here
}
where JSON myData is:
{
amount: "10.00",
email: "someone#example.com",
merchant_id: "123",
mobile_no: "9874563210",
order_id: "123456",
passkey: "1234"
}
This is a simple example for your understanding. In your scenario of nested objects, loop over your JSON data and use hasOwnProperty to check if key name exists.
I want to convert the data from an Excel file to a JSON file. However, I'm not sure about the design of my JSON code (i.e. is it organized in a proper way in order to process it easily?)
I will use this JSON file with D3.js.
This a small part of my Excel file:
I'd like to convert this data into a JSON file in order to use it with D3.js. This is what I have so far:
So my question is: is this a good design (way) for organizing the data in order to use it with D3.js?
This is a sample output:
Thanks in advance!
This is a somewhat subjective question, but from my experience, there is a better way:
Since you're working in d3, you're probably doing something like this:
d3.selectAll('div')
.data(entities)
.enter()
.append('div')
...
So you want entities to be an array. The question is what are your entities? Is there a view where entities are all the countries in the world? Is there a view where entities are all the countries plus all the regions plus the whole world? Or, are all the views going to be simply all the countries in a selected region, not including the region itself?
The unless the JSON structure you're proposing matches the combinations of entities that you plan to display, your code will have to do a bunch of concat'ing and/or filtering of arrays in order to get a single entities array that you can bind to. Maybe that's ok, but it will create some unnecessary amount of coupling between your code and the structure of the data.
From my experience, it turns out that the most flexible way (and also probably the simplest in terms of coding) is to keep the hierarchy flat, like it is in the excel file. So, instead of encoding regions into the hierarchy, just have them in a single, flat array like so:
{
"immigration": [
{
"name": "All Countries"
"values: [
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
...
]
},
{
"name": "Africa"
"values: [
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
...
]
},
{
"name": "Eastern Africa"
"continent": "Africa"
"values": [
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
...
]
},
{
"name": "Burundi"
"continent": "Africa"
"region": "East Africa"
"values": [
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
...
]
},
{
"name": "Djibouti"
"continent": "Africa"
"region": "East Africa"
"values": [
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
{ "Year": ..., "value": ... },
...
]
},
...
]
}
Note that even though the array is flat, there is still a hierarchy here -- the region and sub-region properties.
You'll have to do a bit of filtering to extract just the countries/regions you want to show. But that's simpler than traversing the hierarchy you're proposing:
var africanEntities = data.immigration.filter(function(country) {
return country.continent == "Africa";
}); // Includes the region "East Africa"
var justCountries = data.immigration.filter(function(country) {
return country.continent != null && country.region != null;
});
Also, d3 has the awesome d3.nest(), which lets you turn this flat data into hierarchical one with little effort:
var countriesByContinent = d3.nest()
.key(function(d) { return d.continent; })
.map(data.immigration);
var africanEntities = countriesByContinent['Africa'];
Hope that helps....