Question

I have a json file that looks like this:

{
    "status": 200,
    "data": {
        "employeeId": "515552",
        "firstName": "Name",
        "lastName": "LastName",
        "locationName": "Location Name",
        "businessUnitName": "Unit",
        "workPhone": "212/465-5555",
        "cellPhone": "646/261-5555",
        "faxNumber": "",
        "assistant": "",
        "email": "[e-mail]",
        "reportsTo": [
            {
                "employeeId": "533953",
                "firstName": "Howard",
                "lastName": "Jacobs",
                "jobTitle": "EVP Marketing & Sales Teams"
            }
        ],
        "departnemtId": "649654910",
        "departnemtName": "Action Sports Administration",
        "jobTitle": "VP Action Sports/Transform Dev"
    }
}

I am using an Ajax call to push the data into an array, but I can’t seem to figure out the proper way to get to the reportsTo data. It’s the last one and I’m getting Undefined:

// Load the Employee Details on the index.page  
$.ajax({
            url: "user-details-515552.json",
            cache: true,
            dataType : 'json',

            success : function(results) {
                var employeeData = [];
                    employeeData.push({
                        assistant: results.data.assistant,
                        departmentID: results.data.departnemtId,
                        departmentName: results.data.departnemtName,
                        locationName: results.data.locationName,
                        reportsToName: results.data.reportsTo.employeeId
                    });

                $('#employee-details').tmpl(employeeData).appendTo('#results-container');

            } 

        });

Answer 1

reportsTo is an array ([]) containing one object ({}) so you will need to access the first element of the array ([0]) first:

results.data.reportsTo[0].employeeId