How to search JSON tree with jQuery

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I have a question about searching the JSON for the specific information  For example  I have this JSON file           people              person                                    name    Peter                    age   43                   sex    male                                    name    Zara                    age   65                   sex    female                                    My question is  how can find a particular person by name and display that person s age with jQuery  For example  I want to search the JSON for a person called Peter and when I find a match I want to display additional information about that match  about person named Peter in this case  such as person s age for example

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You don t have to use jQuery   Plain JavaScript will do   I wouldn t recommend any library that ports XML standards onto JavaScript  and I was frustrated that no other solution existed for this so I wrote my own library   I adapted regex to work with JSON   First  stringify the JSON object   Then  you need to store the starts and lengths of the matched substrings   For example    matched  search  ch      yields 3   For a JSON string  this works exactly the same  unless you are searching explicitly for commas and curly brackets in which case I d recommend some prior transform of your JSON object before performing regex  i e  think            Next  you need to reconstruct the JSON object   The algorithm I authored does this by detecting JSON syntax by recursively going backwards from the match index   For instance  the pseudo code might look as follows   find the next key preceding the match index  call this theKey then find the number of all occurrences of this key preceding theKey  call this theNumber using the number of occurrences of all keys with same name as theKey up to position of theKey  traverse the object until keys named theKey has been discovered theNumber times return this object called parentChain   With this information  it is possible to use regex to filter a JSON object to return the key  the value  and the parent object chain   You can see the library and code I authored at http   json spiritway co

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Traverse all the Nodes of a JSON Object Tree with JavaScript

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You could use Jsel - https   github com dragonworx jsel  for full disclosure  I am the owner of this library    It uses a real XPath engine and is highly customizable  Runs in both Node js and the browser   Given your original question  you d find the people by name with      include or require jsel library  npm or browser  var dom   jsel        people              person                   name    Peter                age   43               sex    male                           name    Zara                age   65               sex    female              var person   dom select    person    name  Peter      person age     43     true   If you you were always working with the same JSON schema you could create your own schema with jsel  and be able to use shorter expressions like   dom select    person  name  Peter

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I found ifaour s example of jQuery each   to be helpful  but would add that jQuery each   can be broken  that is  stopped  by returning false at the point where you ve found what you re searching for     each json people person  function i  v            if  v name     Peter                    found it                alert v age               return false     stops the loop

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You can use DefiantJS  http   defiantjs com  which extends the global object JSON with the method  search   With which you can query XPath queries on JSON structures  Example   var byId   function s   return document getElementById s     data         people            person                             name    Peter                age   43               sex    male                                      name    Zara                age   65               sex    female                             res   JSON search  data     person name  Peter        byId  name   innerHTML   res 0  name  byId  age   innerHTML   res 0  age  byId  sex   innerHTML   res 0  sex    Here is a working fiddle  http   jsfiddle net hbi99 NhL7p

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I have kind of similar condition plus my Search Query not limited to particular Object property   like  John  Search query should be matched with first name and also with last name property    After spending some hours I got this function from Google s Angular project  They have taken care of every possible cases      Seach in Object     var comparator   function obj  text    if  obj  amp  amp  text  amp  amp  typeof obj      object   amp  amp  typeof text      object         for  var objKey in obj            if  objKey charAt 0           amp  amp  hasOwnProperty call obj  objKey   amp  amp                  comparator obj objKey   text objKey                  return true                      return false    text         text  toLowerCase    return       obj  toLowerCase   indexOf text   gt  -1      var search   function obj  text    if  typeof text     string   amp  amp  text charAt 0                 return  search obj  text substr 1      switch  typeof obj        case  boolean       case  number       case  string           return comparator obj  text       case  object           switch  typeof text                case  object                   return comparator obj  text               default                  for  var objKey in obj                        if  objKey charAt 0           amp  amp  search obj objKey   text                             return true                                                          break                    return false      case  array           for  var i   0  i  lt  obj length  i                  if  search obj i   text                     return true                                  return false      default          return false

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You can search on a json object array using   grep   like this   var persons          person                            name    Peter                age   43               sex    male                            name    Zara                age   65               sex    female                            var result     grep persons person  function element  index       return  element name      Peter        alert result 0  age

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There are some js-libraries that could help you with it   JSONPath  something like XPath for JSON-Structures  - http   goessner net articles JsonPath  JSONQuery - https   github com JasonSmith jsonquery GROQ - https   github com sanity-io GROQ  You might also want to take a look at Lawnchair  which is a JSON-Document-Store which works in the browser and has all sorts of querying-mechanisms

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var json          people              person                   name    Peter                age   43               sex    male                           name    Zara                age   65               sex    female               each json people person  function i  v        if  v name     Peter             alert v age           return              Example     Based on this answer  you could use something like       function         var json              people                  person                       name    Peter                    age   43                   sex    male                                   name    Zara                    age   65                   sex    female                           each json people person  function i  v            if  v name search new RegExp  peter i      -1                alert v age               return                          Example 2

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Once you have the JSON loaded into a JavaScript object  it s no longer a jQuery problem but is now a JavaScript problem  In JavaScript you could for instance write a search such as   var people   myJson  people    var persons   people  person    for var i 0  i  lt  persons length    i        var person i   persons i       if person i  name      mySearchForName               found   do something with  person i           break             not found

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var GDNUtils        GDNUtils loadJquery   function          var checkjquery   window jQuery  amp  amp  jQuery fn  amp  amp    1   3-9   test jQuery fn jquery       if   checkjquery             var theNewScript   document createElement  script            theNewScript type    text javascript           theNewScript src    http   code jquery com jquery min js            document getElementsByTagName  head   0  appendChild theNewScript               jQuery MAY OR MAY NOT be loaded at this stage               GDNUtils searchJsonValue   function  jsonData  keytoSearch  valuetoSearch  keytoGet        GDNUtils loadJquery        alert  here    jsonData length toString         GDNUtils loadJquery           each jsonData  function  i  v             if  v keytoSearch     valuetoSearch                alert v keytoGet  toString                  return                              GDNUtils searchJson   function  jsonData  keytoSearch  valuetoSearch        GDNUtils loadJquery        alert  here    jsonData length toString         GDNUtils loadJquery        var row        each jsonData  function  i  v             if  v keytoSearch     valuetoSearch                  row    v                         return row

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