Question

I have a json output that looks like this..

{
   "XXXX": {
      "name": "Dalvin Nieger",
      "work": [
         {
            "department": {
               "name": "Sales"
            },
            "start_date": "0000-00"
         }
      ],
      "link": "http://www.my-site.com/profile.php?id=XXXXX",
      "id": "XXXXXX"
   },
   "XXXXXXX": {
      "name": "Nick Mercer",
      "work": [
         {
            "department": {
               "name": "Marketing"
            },
            "start_date": "0000-00",
            "end_date": "0000-00"
         }
      ],
      "link": "http://www.my-site.com/profile.php?id=XXXXXX",
      "id": "XXXXXX"
   }
}

Where XXXX is the id no. of the employee. I want to loop through the data and get id no., name, department he works in and end date for each employee using javascript.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Your JSON isn’t correct – it’s wrapped in an array but you don’t use keys in JSON arrays. If you changed the outer brackets ([) to braces ({) you’d just be able to loop through the JSON object keys in JavaScript. See here for instructions.