[javascript] How do I iterate over a JSON structure?

I have the following JSON structure:

[{ "id":"10", "class": "child-of-9" }, { "id": "11", "classd": "child-of-10" }]

How do I iterate over it using JavaScript?

Please let me know if it is not easy:

var jsonObject = {
  name: 'Amit Kumar',
  Age: '27'
};

for (var prop in jsonObject) {
  alert("Key:" + prop);
  alert("Value:" + jsonObject[prop]);
}

If this is your dataArray:

var dataArray = [{"id":28,"class":"Sweden"}, {"id":56,"class":"USA"}, {"id":89,"class":"England"}];

then:

$(jQuery.parseJSON(JSON.stringify(dataArray))).each(function() {  
         var ID = this.id;
         var CLASS = this.class;
});

this is a pure commented JavaScript example.

  <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
  function iterate_json(){
            // Create our XMLHttpRequest object
            var hr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            // Create some variables we need to send to our PHP file
            hr.open("GET", "json-note.php", true);//this is your php file containing json

            hr.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json", true);
            // Access the onreadystatechange event for the XMLHttpRequest object
            hr.onreadystatechange = function() {
                if(hr.readyState == 4 && hr.status == 200) {
                    var data = JSON.parse(hr.responseText);
                    var results = document.getElementById("myDiv");//myDiv is the div id
                    for (var obj in data){
                    results.innerHTML += data[obj].id+ "is"+data[obj].class + "<br/>";
                    }
                }
            }

            hr.send(null); 
        }
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">iterate_json();</script>// call function here

var arr = [ {"id":"10", "class": "child-of-9"}, {"id":"11", "class": "child-of-10"}];
    
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
  document.write("<br><br>array index: " + i);
  var obj = arr[i];
  for (var key in obj){
    var value = obj[key];
    document.write("<br> - " + key + ": " + value);
  }
}

note: the for-in method is cool for simple objects. Not very smart to use with DOM object.

Use for...of:

var mycars = [{name:'Susita'}, {name:'BMW'}];

for (var car of mycars) 
{
  document.write(car.name + "<br />");
}

Result:

Susita
BMW

With nested objects, it can be retrieve as by recursive function:

function inside(events)
  {
    for (i in events) {
      if (typeof events[i] === 'object')
        inside(events[i]);
      else
      alert(events[i]);
    }
  }
  inside(events);

where as events is json object.

mootools example:

var ret = JSON.decode(jsonstr);

ret.each(function(item){
    alert(item.id+'_'+item.classd);
});

Marquis Wang's may well be the best answer when using jQuery.

Here is something quite similar in pure JavaScript, using JavaScript's forEach method. forEach takes a function as an argument. That function will then be called for each item in the array, with said item as the argument.

Short and easy:

var results = [ {"id":"10", "class": "child-of-9"}, {"id":"11", "classd": "child-of-10"} ];

results.forEach(function(item) {
    console.log(item);
});

Copied and pasted from http://www.w3schools.com, there is no need for the JQuery overhead.

var person = {fname:"John", lname:"Doe", age:25};

var text = "";
var x;
for (x in person) {
    text += person[x];
}

RESULT: John Doe 25

Another solution to navigate through JSON documents is JSONiq (implemented in the Zorba engine), where you can write something like:

jsoniq version "1.0";

let $doc := [
  {"id":"10", "class": "child-of-9"},
  {"id":"11", "class": "child-of-10"}
]
for $entry in members($doc)             (: binds $entry to each object in turn :)
return $entry.class                     (: gets the value associated with "class" :)

You can run it on http://try.zorba.io/

You can use a mini library like objx - http://objx.googlecode.com/

You can write code like this:

var data =  [ {"id":"10", "class": "child-of-9"},
              {"id":"11", "class": "child-of-10"}];

// alert all IDs
objx(data).each(function(item) { alert(item.id) });

// get all IDs into a new array
var ids = objx(data).collect("id").obj();

// group by class
var grouped = objx(data).group(function(item){ return item.class; }).obj()

There are more 'plugins' available to let you handle data like this, see http://code.google.com/p/objx-plugins/wiki/PluginLibrary