parse [object Object] Angular 6

Question

I want to parse a string and save projectName and poNumber into 2 variables. This is what I have by now, using JSON.parse()

employees = []
JSON.parse(data).array.forEach(element => {
    this.employees.push({
      projectName: element.projectName,
      poNumber: element.poNumber
    })
  });

console.log(employees['projectName'])
console.log(employees['poNumber'])

where data has this format:

{"id":1,"name": "john doe", "project":"[object Object]"}

and project looks like:

"project": [
     {
        "projectName": "proj1",
        "poNumber": "1"
     }
]

But I get this error

ERROR SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1

Where am I mistaking? Thank you for your time!

EDIT: I understood why I get this error, because my data is already an object and there is no need to use JSON.parse(), but my code is still not working because I get the error:

core.js:1671 ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined

Answer 1

Your Json String is not valid and is not stringified by JSON.stringify() instead it was stringified by toString method, otherwise nested objects were stringified properly.