JavaScript loop through JSON array?

Question

Your JSON should look like this:

var json = [{
    "id" : "1", 
    "msg"   : "hi",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "[email protected]"
},
{
    "id" : "2", 
    "msg"   : "there",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "[email protected]"
}];

You can loop over the Array like this:

for(var i = 0; i < json.length; i++) {
    var obj = json[i];

    console.log(obj.id);
}

Or like this (suggested from Eric) be careful with IE support

json.forEach(function(obj) { console.log(obj.id); });

There's a few problems in your code, first your json must look like :

var json = [{
"id" : "1", 
"msg"   : "hi",
"tid" : "2013-05-05 23:35",
"fromWho": "[email protected]"
},
{
"id" : "2", 
"msg"   : "there",
"tid" : "2013-05-05 23:45",
"fromWho": "[email protected]"
}];

Next, you can iterate like this :

for (var key in json) {
if (json.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
  alert(json[key].id);
  alert(json[key].msg);
}
}

And it gives perfect result.

See the fiddle here : http://jsfiddle.net/zrSmp/

try this

var json = [{
    "id" : "1", 
    "msg"   : "hi",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "[email protected]"
},
{
    "id" : "2", 
    "msg"   : "there",
    "tid" : "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "[email protected]"
}];

json.forEach((item) => {
  console.log('ID: ' + item.id);
  console.log('MSG: ' + item.msg);
  console.log('TID: ' + item.tid);
  console.log('FROMWHO: ' + item.fromWho);
});

var arr = [
  {
  "id": "1",
  "msg": "hi",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
  "fromWho": "[email protected]"
  }, {
  "id": "2",
  "msg": "there",
  "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
  "fromWho": "[email protected]"
  }
];

forEach method for easy implementation.

arr.forEach(function(item){
  console.log('ID: ' + item.id);
  console.log('MSG: ' + item.msg);
  console.log('TID: ' + item.tid);
  console.log('FROMWHO: ' + item.fromWho);
});

Since i already started looking into it:

var data = [{
    "id": "1",
    "msg": "hi",
    "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
    "fromWho": "[email protected]"
}, {
    "id": "2",
    "msg": "there",
    "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
    "fromWho": "[email protected]"
}]

And this function

var iterateData =function(data){   for (var key in data) {
       if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          console.log(data[key].id);
       }
    }};

You can call it like this

iterateData(data); // write 1 and 2 to the console

Update after Erics comment

As eric pointed out a for in loop for an array can have unexpected results. The referenced question has a lengthy discussion about pros and cons.

Test with for(var i ...

But it seems that the follwing is quite save:

for(var i = 0; i < array.length; i += 1)

Although a test in chrome had the following result

var ar = [];
ar[0] = "a"; 
ar[1] = "b";
ar[4] = "c";

function forInArray(ar){ 
     for(var i = 0; i < ar.length; i += 1) 
        console.log(ar[i]);
}

// calling the function
// returns a,b, undefined, undefined, c, undefined
forInArray(ar); 

Test with .forEach()

At least in chrome 30 this works as expected

var logAr = function(element, index, array) {
    console.log("a[" + index + "] = " + element);
}
ar.forEach(logAr); // returns a[0] = a, a[1] = b, a[4] = c

Links

• see for in at the mdn
• the new forEach method
• a comment that states that array comprehension makes for in less bad
• Array comprehension introduced with javascript 1.7 in firefox 2 (yes 2)

It is working. I just added square brackets to JSON data. The data is:

var data = [
    { 
        "id": "1",
        "msg": "hi", 
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35", 
        "fromWho": "[email protected]" 
    }, 
    { 
        "id": "2", 
        "msg": "there", 
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45", 
        "fromWho": "[email protected]"
    }
]

And the loop is:

for (var key in data) {
   if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
         alert(data[key].id);
   }
} 

It must be an array if you want to iterate over it. You're very likely missing [ and ].

var x = [{
    "id": "1",
        "msg": "hi",
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:35",
        "fromWho": "[email protected]"
}, {
    "id": "2",
        "msg": "there",
        "tid": "2013-05-05 23:45",
        "fromWho": "[email protected]"
}];

var $output = $('#output');
for(var i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
    console.log(x[i].id);
}

Check out this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/lpiepiora/kN7yZ/