jquery json parsing

Question

How do I parse this json with jQuery?

DayEvents : [{"0":"886","event_id":"886","1":"5029","user_id":"5029","2":"Professional","user_type":"Professional", ...

Answer 1

Stolen from .parseJSON() doc.

Example:

Parse a JSON string.

var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{"name":"John"}');
alert( obj.name === "John" );

Your example code seems to be an object already. You would have the put braces around the whole thing to use and parse it with parseJSON.

Answer 2

The term "parsing" is a bit misplaced since this is already in JSON format. You don't need to parse it, but just to access it. If it were a large String in JSON format then you indeed need to parse it into an useable JSON object first before accessing.

This JSON contains one property, the DayEvents, which in turn contains an array []. You can access properties using dot . operator. You can get an array item at the given index using [index] where zero 0 denotes the first item.

var json = { DayEvents : [{"0":"886","event_id":"886","1":"5029","user_id":"5029","2":"Professional","user_type":"Professional" }]};
var firstDayEvent = json.DayEvents[0];

The array in turn contains an object {}. Or maybe more than one? You can have more than one items in an array, you should then see [{}, {}, {}, ...] and you could then access each item in an loop like so:

for (var i = 0; i < json.DayEvents.length; i++) {
    var dayEvent = json.DayEvents[i];
    // ...
}

A single day event object has several properties: 0, event_id, 1, user_id, 2, etc. You cannot access properties starting with a number using dot . operator, you would then like to use the brace notation:

var zero = firstDayEvent['0'];
var eventId = firstDayEvent.event_id;
var one = firstDayEvent['1'];
var userId = firstDayEvent.user_id;
var two = firstDayEvent['2'];
// ...

alert(eventId); // 886
alert(two); // Professional

To learn more about JSON, check this tutorial.