Question

I have a JSON associate array

[{"Test":"5:00pm"},{"Testing2":"4:30 pm"}]

and I want to make it so that it becomes an array where

{
  theatre = Test
  time = 5:00pm
},
{
  theatre = Testing2
  time = 4:30 pm
}

But I can’t figure out how to take a key name and make it a value…

Any help? I was looking at Object.keys but I couldn’t find a suitable solution.

Answer 1

You have an array with object values. You’d need to loop over them:

var oldArray = [{"Test":"5:00pm"},{"Testing2":"4:30 pm"}];
var newArray = [];

for (var i = 0; i < oldArray.length; i++) {
    var keys = Object.keys(oldArray[i]);

    newArray.push({
        theatre: keys[0],
        time: oldArray[i][keys[0]]
    });
}

http://jsfiddle.net/FNAtw/

This will give you an array stored in newArray with two elements. The first element is an object with kvps theatre: 'Test' and time: '5:00pm'. The second element is an object with kvps theatre: 'Testing2' and time: '4:30pm'.