How to avoid extra nesting in json string

Question

I tried to create json string according to syntax from wikipedia. I created json string with the following code:

        var data = [];
        
        data.push(
            {
                "firstName": "John",
                "lastName": "Smith",
                "isAlive": true,
                "age": 27,      
            });
            
        var addressdata = [];   

        addressdata.push(
                    {
                        "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
                        "city": "New York",
                        "state": "NY",
                        "postalCode": "10021-3100"
                    });
        
        data.push(
            {
                "address" : addressdata
            }
        );

The string is correct json string. However, the json structure contains some unnecessary nesting, as shown in the Figures 1 and 2 below. More precisely, there are surplus braces for address block, and the string is also enclosured with brackets instead of braces. So, what am I doing wrong? How can I avoid this unnecessary nesting and get structure as shown in Fig. 3?

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

Fig. 3

The string is generated with jsonData : data, in Ajax request.

Guldborg92 · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-21 21:35:45Z

2

You are using a list for the data variable. That's why you get brackets in the beginning and end of the JSON body. To overcome this problem you can declare the whole JSON body in the data variable like:

data = {
  "firstname": "test",
  (...)
  "address": [{
    "streetAddress": "test"
    (...)
  }]
}

edited Jan 21, 2021 at 21:35

answered Jan 21, 2021 at 21:28

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