Question

I have a REST service that returns a JSON like this:

[{"@id":"123","name":"Name"}]

and I’m tearing my hair out trying to figure out how the hell to get the value for @id. I’ve tried:

var temp =  data['@id'];
var temp = data[0].'@id';
var temp = data[0].['@id'];

all of which return errors. Can someone please help me out here?

Answer 1

var temp = data[0]['@id'];

Using .property only accepts symbols you can use in identifiers and is identical to ["property"]. Since you have array with single object with "@id" property and @ can’t be used in identifiers, you have to use brackets. This above translates to data -> it’s 0th index (index count start from 0) -> its property “@id”.