Get collection of elements from JSON

Question

I have a JSON file with the structure as below:

{"root" : {
     "parent" : {
          "childA" : 
              ["element1",
               "element2"],
          "childB" :
              ["element1",
               "element2"]
     }
}

How can I get a collection of children [childA, childB] from it?

For now what I'm doing:

1. Parse the JSON file to an object (I know how to do that and suggested response is about this).

2. Create the collection:

   var collection = [JSON.root.parent.childA, JSON.root.parent.childB];
   collection.forEach(function(child) {
       print(child[0])
   });
   

to print "element1".

I'm new to JavaScript but I believe there is a better and more generic way to achieve the point 2.

EDIT: I forgot to add that this Java Script is used inside Nashorn jjs script.

Answer 1

You can try using JToken also -

 using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;    

 JToken.Parse(response.Content)
.SelectTokens("root.parent");

Answer 2

You can use Object.values to get the entries in the parent object.

var data = {"root" : {
     "parent" : {
          "childA" : 
              ["element1",
               "element2"],
          "childB" :
              ["element1",
               "element2"]
     }
   }
};


var collection = []; 
for (var o in data.root.parent){
    collection.push(data.root.parent[o]);
}
collection.forEach(function(child) {
    console.log(child[0]);
});

Answer 3

Simply use Object.keys() for this:

var data = {"root" : {
     "parent" : {
          "childA" : 
              ["element1",
               "element2"],
          "childB" :
              ["element1",
               "element2"]
     }
   }
};
var collection = [];
for (var childIndex in data.root.parent){
  data.root.parent[childIndex].every(child => collection.push(child));
};
console.log(collection);