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Loop Through JSON Object List

The document discusses different ways to iterate through a JSON object list returned from a web service and extract property values. It provides sample JSON data and several approaches to loop through the list and alert the "EmployeeName" value of each object, including using a basic for loop, jQuery each method, and for/in loop. The best way depends on the exact structure of the JSON response.

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Loop Through JSON Object List

The document discusses different ways to iterate through a JSON object list returned from a web service and extract property values. It provides sample JSON data and several approaches to loop through the list and alert the "EmployeeName" value of each object, including using a basic for loop, jQuery each method, and for/in loop. The best way depends on the exact structure of the JSON response.

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Loop through JSON object List

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Hello,

I am returning a List<> from a webservice as a List of JSON objects. I am trying to use a


for loop to iterate through the list and grab the values out of the properties. This is a
sample of the returning JSON:

{"d":[{"__type":"FluentWeb.DTO.EmployeeOrder",
"EmployeeName":"Janet Leverling",
"EmployeeTitle":"Sales Representative",
"RequiredDate":"\/Date(839224800000)\/",
"OrderedProducts":null}]}

So I am trying to extract the contents using something like this:

function PrintResults(result) {

for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {


alert(result.employeename);
}

How should this be done?

Answer 1
for (var i = 0; i < result.d.length; i++) {
alert(result.d[i].EmployeeName);
}

Answer 2

Since you are using jQuery, you might as well use the each method... Also, it seems like
everything is a value of the property 'd' in this JS Object [Notation].

$.each(result.d,function(i) {
// In case there are several values in the array 'd'
$.each(this,function(j) {
// Apparently doesn't work...
alert(this.EmployeeName);
// What about this?
alert(result.d[i][j]['EmployeeName']);
// Or this?
alert(result.d[i][j].EmployeeName);
});
});

That should work. if not, then maybe you can give us a longer example of the JSON.
Edit: If none of this stuff works then I'm starting to think there might be something
wrong with the syntax of your JSON.

Answer 3

It's close! Try this:

for (var prop in result) {


if (result.hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
alert(result[prop]);
}
}

Update:

If your result is truly is an array of one object, then you might have to do this:

for (var prop in result[0]) {


if (result[0].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
alert(result[0][prop]);
}
}

Or if you want to loop through each result in the array if there are more, try:

for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {


for (var prop in result[i]) {
if (result[i].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
alert(result[i][prop]);
}
}
}

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