Assign JSON object value to variable

Question

I'm trying to extract a certain name/value pair from a JSON object & assign it to a variable.

A sample of my object

{"new":[{"id":"185","title":"new time","slug":"new-time","time":"1363641168","text":"all done","deletetime":null}]

I'm trying to assign the time to a timestamp variable for later use in my AngularJS app. Anyway that I attempt, it returns as undefined.

$scope.news = data.new["time"];

What is the correct way to access the value of time?

pmckeown · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-19 00:57:51Z

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new is a keyword in JavaScript, so you won't be able to use it in your property access notation. Consider renaming the new element in your data to be 'newItems' or something.

answered Mar 19, 2013 at 0:57

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EnigmaRM Over a year ago

I didn't even think about that. It doesn't seem to cause a problem though. Could that be because it exists within an object that it doesn't cause an issue?

EnigmaRM Over a year ago

I went ahead and changed from the new keyword.

pmckeown Over a year ago

It doesn't seem to be a problem in this case actually. But its a good thing to remember.

kreek · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-18 22:38:02Z

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"new" is an array, so the first item's time prop is:

data.new[0].time

answered Mar 18, 2013 at 22:38

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EnigmaRM Over a year ago

Great! That seems like such an obvious answer. I was able to assign it to a variable without a problem.

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