Converting JSON/JS Object to array

Question

I have a JSON response from my API that is structured like so:

{
 "data": [
 {
 "id": "1", "name": "test"
 },
 {
 "id": "2", "name": "test2"
 }
 ]
}

When I reference data I get the array with each record. I need the curly braces to be brackets due to a plugin I am using requiring it to be an array.

Desired output:

[
 ["1", "test"],
 ["2", "test"]
]

How can I convert the above JSON to this?

Edit:

This turned out to be a problem with a plugin I was using, and I knew how to do this fine all along. Thought I was going crazy but my code was fine, some plugin was screwing things up.

• Felix Kling: What have you tried so far? Where are you stuck? Do you know how to iterate over an array or an object? You must have tried something before asking.
• user4097807: Yes I know how to iterate over an array/object.
• Felix Kling: Well, JSON.stringify() encodes an array or object as JSON. It doesn't change the structure of the array or object.
• Matt Burland: @NoahMatisoff: What were you expecting JSON.stringify to do? You have an array already, so just iterate through it and push the id and name into a new array of arrays.
• Mohamad Shiralizadeh: You can iterate over result.data and then convert each row into an array that contains your row data.

Answer 1

You can do this using Array.prototype.map

var arr = json.data.map(function(x){ 
 return [x.id, x.name]; 
});

• Felix Kling: @NoahMatisoff: Given the input from your question, it produces exactly the output you wanted: jsfiddle.net/g9frwert . Assuming you parsed the JSON of course.
• user4097807: I added this code right after Angular's $http returns the data, console.log() it, but for some reason it's not working properly.
• user4097807: This solved my problem this issue must be with the plugin so I accepted this. Thanks

Answer 2

Something like this maybe: http://jsfiddle.net/3gcg6Lbz/1/

var arr = new Array();
var obj = {
 "data": [
 {
 "id": "1", "name": "test"
 },
 {
 "id": "2", "name": "test2"
 }
 ]
}
for(var i in obj.data) {
 var thisArr = new Array();
 thisArr.push(obj.data[i].id);
 thisArr.push(obj.data[i].name);
 arr.push(thisArr);
}
console.log(arr);

• Felix Kling: You should avoid using for...in loops to iterate over arrays.
• user1572796: I run and get this in the console... [["1", "test"], ["2", "test2"]]
• user1572796: @FelixKling how do you typically iterate over arrays?
• Felix Kling: With a for loop: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/…
• user1572796: Why do you choose for loop over for in? It is for performance reasons? I have heard for in is faster. Just curious