How to find length of JSON using JSON.parse?

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I have a Json like this {"0":{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1803","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:01:49","message":"dhb;lxd","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"}}. So ideally i should get length as 1 considering i have only 1 value on 0th location.

what if i have a JSON like this

{"0":{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1803","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:01:49","message":"dhb;lxd","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"},"1":{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1804","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:02:49","message":"amol","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"}}

I am getting the value as undefined if i do alert(response.length); where response is my JSON as mentioned above

Any suggestions?

Please show the code you are using to fetch the JSON

Pekka
– Pekka

2010-12-28 12:51:06 +00:00
Commented Dec 28, 2010 at 12:51 — Pekka
– Pekka, Commented Dec 28, 2010 at 12:51

Zsolt Meszaros · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-26 14:50:14Z

Objects don't have a .length property...not in the way you're thinking (it's undefined), it's Arrays that have that, to get a length, you need to count the keys, for example:

var length = 0;
for(var k in obj) if(obj.hasOwnProperty(k)) length++;

Or, alternatively, use the keys collection available on most browsers:

var length = obj.keys.length;

MDN provides an implementation for browsers that don't already have .keys:

Object.keys = Object.keys || function(o) {
    var result = [];
    for(var name in o) {
        if (o.hasOwnProperty(name))
          result.push(name);
    }
    return result;
};

Or, option #3, actually make your JSON an array, since those keys don't seem to mean much, like this:

[{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1803","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:01:49","message":"dhb;lxd","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"},{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1804","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:02:49","message":"amol","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"}]

Then you can use .length like you want, and still access the members by index.

Nazir Ahmad · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-05 19:13:43Z

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let _json = '{"0":{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1803","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:01:49","message":"dhb;lxd","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"},"1":{"parent_id":1649,"id":"1804","last_update_on":"2010-12-24 07:02:49","message":"amol","created_by_id":"21","created_by_name":"Amol Deshpande"}}';
let your_json = $.parseJSON(_json);
const size = Object.keys(your_json).length;

answered Jun 5, 2022 at 19:13

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