Question

I have a Json array which has the elements below:
“adjacencies”, “data”, “id”, “name”.
In some elements, “adjacencies” does not exist.
This is an example:

var JsonArray = [
                 {
                   "id" : "id1",
                   "name" : "name1",
                   "data" : {
                             "$type" : "circle",
                             "$color" : "#AEC43B"
                            }
                 }, //Without "adjacencies"

                 {
                   "id" : "id2",
                   "name" : "name2",
                   "data" : {
                             "$type" : "circle",
                             "$color" : "#AEC43B"
                            }
                 }, //Without "adjacencies"

                 {
                    "adjacencies": [
                                    {
                                     "nodeTo": "id1",
                                     "nodeFrom": "id3",
                                     "data": {
                                              "$color": "#416D9C"
                                             }
                                    }
                                    ],
                    "id" : "id3",
                    "name" : "name3",
                    "data" : {
                             "$type" : "circle",
                             "$color" : "#AEC43B"
                            }
                 } //With "adjacencies"
                ];

The first and the second elements doesn’t contain “adjacencies”, but the third element does.
In the loop for (i = 0; i < JsonArray.length; i++) how do I access the third element?
Is there a .contain property for example?
Thanks in advance:)

Answer 1

One way to do it is by checking if the value is of type undefined:

for (i = 0; i < JsonArray.length; i++) {
    var item = JsonArray[i];
    if (typeof item.adjacencies !== "undefined") {
        // item has adjacencies property
    }
}

As an aside: this is not a JSON array — it’s a Javascript array. There are no JSON objects, no JSON arrays, no JSON nothing. The only JSON-y thing that exists is plain JSON, which is a serialization format.