Constructing JSON in Javascript

Question

I am trying to construct JSON object in js. There are couple of posts already about this topic in stack overflow itself. Referred to How do i build JSON dynamically in javascript?. Have to construct JSON exactly something like mentioned in the post.

{
    "privilege": {
        "accesstype": "VIEW",
        "attribute": [
            {
                "code": "contenttype",
                "displayname": "Content type",
                "value": {
                    "valcode": "book_article",
                    "valdisplayName": "Book Article"
                }
            },
            {
                "code": "mime",
                "displayname": "Mime type",
                "value": {
                    "valcode": "xml",
                    "valdisplayName": "Xml"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Follwed the answers in the post and tried this,

var privilege = {};

privilege.attribute[0].code = "contenttype";
privilege.attribute[0].displayname = "Content type";
privilege.attribute[0].value.valcode = "book_article";
privilege.attribute[0].value.valdisplayName = "Book Article";

But getting error as privilege.attribute undefined.

I am not able to figure out where I am going wrong. Assuming there must be some declaration problems. Any light on it would be of great help.

Have you tried privilege.attribute = new Array() or something like that before adding the members to it? I think it has to do with the fact that attribute itself is not being declared and you're immediately trying to use it as an array. Just a guess though. — jonhopkins
– jonhopkins, Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 13:48
Well, you have to initialize privilege.attribute as an array and the first element of that array as an object. Please have a look at developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/…. Once you built the object, you can use JSON.stringify to convert it to JSON. — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 13:51
possible duplicate of How do i build JSON dynamically in javascript? -- the answer shows everything you need to know, you just did not follow it properly. Please read it again. That being said, depending on what you actually want to do, there might be much easier ways to create the structure you want (see Jim's answer). — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 13:56

devOp · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 13:56:27Z

9

Try this:

 var privilege = {};
 privilege.attribute = [];
 privilege.attribute[0] = {};
 privilege.attribute[0].code="contenttype";
 privilege.attribute[0].displayname="Content type";
 privilege.attribute[0].value = {};
 privilege.attribute[0].value.valcode="book_article";
 privilege.attribute[0].value.valdisplayName="Book Article";

Have a look at Javascript Object. There is a lot of stuff out there. E.g http://mckoss.com/jscript/object.htm

Edit: Initialized privilege.attribute[0] = {}; after hint in comment.

edited Feb 7, 2013 at 13:56

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 13:49

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Felix Kling Over a year ago

Still not correct though. privilege.attribute[0] has to be initialized too.

Jim Blackler · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 13:51:27Z

Why not just do

var privilege = {
    "accesstype": "VIEW",
    "attribute": [{
        "code": "contenttype",
        "displayname": "Content type",
        "value": {
            "valcode": "book_article",
            "valdisplayName": "Book Article"
        }
    }, {
        "code": "mime",
        "displayname": "Mime type",
        "value": {
            "valcode": "xml",
            "valdisplayName": "Xml"
        }
    }]
}

... in fact, you don't need the keys to be strings, you could write...

var privilege = {
    accesstype: "VIEW",
    attribute: [{
        code: "contenttype",
        displayname: "Content type",
        value: {
            valcode: "book_article",
            valdisplayName: "Book Article"
        }
    }, {
        code: "mime",
        displayname: "Mime type",
        value: {
            valcode: "xml",
            valdisplayName: "Xml"
        }
    }]
}

Salman · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 13:49:26Z

0

Try this

privilege.attribute = [];
privilege.attribute.push({});

privilege.attribute[0].code="contenttype";
privilege.attribute[0].displayname="Content type";
privilege.attribute[0].value.valcode="book_article";
privilege.attribute[0].value.valdisplayName="Book Article";

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 13:49

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2 Comments

Felix Kling Over a year ago

privilege.attribute[0] has to be initialized too.

NitZRobotKoder Over a year ago

@Салман Thanks for the quick response. privilege.attribute[0].value had to be initialized too. So did something like this, privilege.attribute[0].value = {};

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