Question

I have nested JSON object like

{"baseball": 
            {"mlb": 
                   {"regular": 
                             {"_events": [{"start_time": "2011-07-31 17:35", "lines":
[{"comment": "", "coeff": "2.35", "title": "2", "old_coeff": "2.35", "is_main": true}, 
{"comment": "", "coeff": "1.59", "title": "2", "old_coeff": "1.59", "is_main": true}, 
{"comment": "", "coeff": "1.59", "title": "2", "old_coeff": "1.59", "is_main": true}, 
{"comment": "", "coeff": "2.35", "title": "2", "old_coeff": "2.35", "is_main": true}], 
"members": ["atlanta", "florida"]
                                 }
                                  ]
                                   }}}}

And i need get _events array and parse it too. But I don’t know what will be in cells before _events and how they will. How do I work with this structure?

Answer 1

function recursiveGetProperty(obj, lookup, callback) {
    for (property in obj) {
        if (property == lookup) {
            callback(obj[property]);
        } else if (obj[property] instanceof Object) {
            recursiveGetProperty(obj[property], lookup, callback);
        }
    }
}    

And just use it like this:

recursiveGetProperty(yourObject, '_events', function(obj) {
    // do something with it.
});

Here’s a working jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ErHng/ (note: it outputs to the console, so you need to Ctrl+Shift+J/Cmnd+Option+I in chrome or open firebug in Firefox and then re-run it)