Simple json array structure

Question

i know the next question must seem stupid but i'll do it anyway :)

I've got this structure:

{
 "name": "Erjet Malaj",
 "first_name": "Erjet",
 "work": [
 {
 "employer": {
 "id": "110108059015688",
 "name": "Art of Living Foundation"
 },
 "position": {
 "id": "137081429661437",
 "name": "Volunteer"
 },
 "start_date": "0000-00",
 "end_date": "0000-00"
 },
 {

I retrieve response.data[i].first_name like this, how am i supposed to retrieve work id?

• apsillers: work doesn't have an ID. Do you mean the employer ID or position ID?
• Subir Kumar Sao: Where is work id in the structure?
• Parv Sharma: work id means employer id OR position Id?.. JGD :)

Answer 1

work is an array. You need to loop through it

var work = response.data[i].work,
 worklen = work.length,
 j, workdetails;
for(j = 0; j < worklen; j++){
 //simplify for readability
 workdetails = work[j];
 //where prop is "employer" or "position"
 workdetails[prop].id 
 workdetails[prop].name
}

• Al Alb: Hey, since i'm here, can i please make you a question, so i need to loop throuh all my id's then for each id extract the work id, what am i doing wrong here please? for(var i=0; i<response.data.length; i++){ var work = response.data[i].work, worklen = work.length, j, workdetails; for(j = 0; j < worklen; j++){ //simplify for readability workdetails = work[j]; //where prop is "employer" or "position" workdetails[prop].id workdetails[prop].name testdiv.innerHTML += workdetails; }
• Bergi: @AlAlb: Please edit your question and post the code there. Nothing is worse than multiline-code in comments...

Answer 2

did you try response.data[i].work.position.id ?

on second thought, work is an array of objects, so it's accessed like :

response.data[i].work[0].position.id

Answer 3

Assuming you mean employer id of a given work

This should get the employer id

response.data[i].work[j].employer.id

You could also do this (depending on preference)

response.data[i].work[j]['employer'].id

In this case the work position is j (used as an array indexer), replace j with 0 to tget the first, with 1 to get the second etc.

Answer 4

There is an id for the employer and position of each record in the work array. If you want to loop over a person's work entries and collect those IDs, use:

var person = response.data[i];
var work = person.work;
for(var j = 0; j < work.length; ++j) {
 var work_entry = work[j];
 console.log(work_entry.employer.id);
 console.log(work_entry.position.id); 
}

The entries in the work array are accessed numerically from 0. The entries themselves are objects, and you can access their properties using obj_name.property_name or obj_name["property_name"]

• Al Alb: Thanks, this was all i needed, it took me time to understand how it works :)