Question

I have json that looks like the following although this is only the beginning of it, not the whole lot.

{"ns1:AmplifyResponse":{"AmplifyReturn":{"Topics":{"Domains":null,"TopTopics":[{"Topic":{"Name":"loo","Value":5.00},"

I am doing this jquery ajax call to get it, again its trimmed:

 $.ajax ({
    type: "POST",
    url: 'ajax/openampcheck.php',
    dataType: 'json',
    async: true,
    data: {"inputtext": inputmaintext},
    success: function(msg){
$('#oaresult').html(msg.ns1:AmplifyResponse.AmplifyReturn.Topics.TopTopics[1].Topic.Name);
....

in Chrome console this given me an error… Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token .
for the last line, which seems to be something to do with the colon here …

ns1:AmplifyResponse

if i wrap it in quotes though, i.e.

$('#oaresult').html(msg."ns1:AmplifyResponse".AmplifyReturn.Topics.TopTopics[1].Topic.Name);

i then get this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 

How should I fix it?

Answer 1

$('#oaresult').html(
              msg["ns1:AmplifyResponse"] // you have to use object["prop"] here
              .AmplifyReturn
              .Topics
              .TopTopics[1]
              .Topic.Name);

or

$('#oaresult').html(msg["ns1:AmplifyResponse"]["AmplifyReturn"]["Topics"]["TopTopics"][1].["Topic"]["Name'});