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The keys and values are separated in the Json object that I get from an api call. I have tried finding a solution It looks like the following:
{
"range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values":
[
"DeptID",
"DeptDescr",
"VP Area",
"VP Descr",
"HR Category",
"Employee Relations1",
"ER1Title",
"ER1Phone",
"ER1Email",
"Employee Relations2",
"ER2Title",
"ER2Phone",
"ER2Email",
"Compensation1",
"Comp1Title",
"Comp1Phone",
"Comp1Email",
"Compensation2",
"Comp2Title",
"Comp2Phone",
"Comp2Email",
"Employment1",
"E1Title",
"E1Phone",
"E1Email",
"Employment2",
"E2Title",
"E2Phone",
"E2Email",
"Employee Pay Services1",
"EPS1Title",
"EPS1Phone",
"EPS1Email",
"Employee Pay Services2",
"EPS2Title",
"EPS2Phone",
"EPS2Email"
],
[
"20734",
"Academic Success Centers",
"VES",
"VP Enroll Mgmt & Student Aff",
"Administrative",
"Brian Schmidt",
" Employee Relations Consultant",
"(928)523-6139",
"Brian.Schmidt#nau.edu",
"Marcia Warden",
"Assistant Director, Employee Relations",
"(928)523-9624",
"Marcia.Warden#nau.edu",
"Nicole Christian",
"Employment & Compensation Analyst",
"(928)523-6127",
" Nicole.Christian#nau.edu",
"Cathy Speirs",
"Associate Director",
"(928)523-6136",
"Cathy.Speirs#nau.edu",
"Nicole Christian",
"Employment & Compensation Analyst",
"(928)523-6127",
" Nicole.Christian#nau.edu",
"Cathy Speirs",
"Associate Director",
"(928)523-6136",
"Cathy.Speirs#nau.edu",
"Katherine Kurpierz",
"Payroll Specialist",
"(928)523-6129",
"Katherine.Kurpierz#nau.edu",
"Cheryl Brothers",
"Assistant Director - HR Payroll Services",
"(928)523-6085",
"Cheryl.Brothers#nau.edu"
], etc.
But I need it to look like:
[
{
"DeptID": 20734,
"DeptDescr": "Academic Success Centers",
"VP Area": "VES",
"VP Descr": "VP Enroll Mgmt & Student Aff",
"HR Category": "Administrative",
"Employee Relations1": "Brian Schmidt",
"Employee Relations2": "Marcia Warden",
"Compensation1": "Nicole Christian",
"Compensation2": "Cathy Speirs",
"Employment1": "Nicole Christian",
"Employment3": "Cathy Speirs",
"Employee Pay Services1": "Katherine Kurpierz",
"Employee Pay Services2": "Cheryl Brothers"
},etc
I am trying to use the data to populate a drop down using javascript and ajax. Any help is really appreciated.

The object your API returns is not a valid JSON. Was that API made by you or can you get that fixed somehow?
There are 2 things you could do to make it work
-One is change it to return exactly what you want;
-Two is to fix what it returns so that it is a valid JSON;
Going for what is wrong with the file you initially posted, let's remove the contents of the arrays so it's easier to spot the problem:
Your original data looks roughly like this:
{ "range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": [],[]
}
To be valid you would need it to look like this:
{ "range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": {
"keys": [],
"data": [],
}
}
Notice that I wrapped the two arrays of "values" with { } because it has to be an object if you want it to contain two arrays in it.
Then I gave each array a key with which you can call them. With that you'd be able to get what you want from your "values", so that for each item in the "keys" array you have something in that "data" array.
Hope this helps.

Well let's have a look;
Suppose this is a short version of the response data you got:
var res = `
{
"range": "'1'!A1:AM243",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": [
"DeptID",
"DeptDescr",
"VP Area"
],
[
"20734",
"Academic Success Centers",
"VES"
],
[
"345543",
"Academic Fails Centers",
"OK"
]
}
`;
As we can see by the first data, looks like a dump from a spreadsheet of sorts, and someone maybe scripted a way to export this data in a JSON-ish way. The values "Array" are the rows of this "spreadsheet".
We will clean it up, and get only the chunks that looks like ["value", "another value", "etc"]
// clean tabs and returns
res = res.replace(/\t/g, '').replace(/\n/g, '');
// get the array-ish chunks
rows = res.match(/\[(((["'])(?:(?=(\\?))\4.)*?\3),*)+\]/gm)
now let's make them real arrays:
var data = rows.map(function (row) {
return JSON.parse(row);
});
Now we have an array of arrays of strings. that means, an array of "rows" that contains the values of the "cells". The first one looks like the header row (the one with the names of the fields)
Lets make objects using each row of data except the first one. The first will serve us as the keys (we match the position (index) of the value from rows[n] from the value on rows[0] to get a key-value pair)
// Here we will define an object to store data
var data_object = { values: [] };
// for each row except the first
for(var i = 1; i < data.length; i++) {
var my_data = {};
//for each element of this row
for(var j = 0; j < data[i].length; j++) {
my_data[data[0][j]] = data[i][j];
}
data_object.values.push(my_data);
}
We have our object, let's suppose you need it in JSON format now:
var json_data = JSON.stringify(data_object);
// let's look what we have here
console.log('json_data:', json_data);
We will look at something like this as a result:
json_data: {"values":[{"DeptID":"20734","DeptDescr":"Academic Success Centers","VP Area":"VES"},{"DeptID":"345543","DeptDescr":"Academic Fails Centers","VP Area":"OK"}]}
NOW A WARNING:
This is what you DON'T want to do if you can fix the API you are getting this data from first. If any inconsistency appears, things will break. and in this example i'm not managing any edge case or exception, neither checking boundaries of arrays or wrapping things in try-catch blocks.

JSON list optimization

I want to create a JSON API that returns a list of objects. Each object has an id, a name and some other information. API is consumed using JavaScript.
The natural options for my JSON output seems to be:
"myList": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "object1",
"details": {}
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "object2",
"details": {}
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "object3",
"details": {}
},
]
Now let's imagine that I use my API to get all the objects but want to first do something with id2 then something else with id1 and id3.
Then I may be interested to be able to directly get the object for a specific id:
"myList": {
"1": {
"name": "object1",
"details": {}
},
"2": {
"name": "object2",
"details": {}
},
"3": {
"name": "object3",
"details": {}
},
}
This second option may be less natural when somewhere else in the code I want to simply loop through all the elements.
Is there a good practice for these use cases when the API is used for both looping through all elements and sometime using specific elements only (without doing a dedicated call for each element)?

In your example you've changed the ID value from 1 to id1. This would make operating on the data a bit annoying, because you have to add and remove id all the time.
If you didn't do that, and you were relying on the sorted order of the object, you may be in for a surprise, depending on JS engine:
var source = JSON.stringify({z: "first", a: "second", 0: "third"});
var parsed = JSON.parse(source);
console.log(Object.keys(parsed));
// ["0", "z", "a"]
My experience is to work with arrays on the transport layer and index the data (i.e. convert array to map) when required.

Indexing array values in an object in an IndexedDB

For a Chrome app, wich stores data in IndexedDB, i have a object like this:
var simplifiedOrderObject = {
"ordernumber": "123-12345-234",
"name": "Mr. Sample",
"address": "Foostreet 12, 12345 Bar York",
"orderitems": [
{
"item": "brush",
"price": "2.00"
},
{
"item": "phone",
"price": "30.90"
}
],
"parcels": [
{
"service": "DHL",
"track": "12345"
},
{
"service": "UPS",
"track": "3254231514"
}
]
}
If i store the hole object in an objectStore, can i use an index for "track", which can be contained multiple times in each order object?
Or is it needed or possibly better/faster to split each object into multiple objectStores like know from relational DBs:
order
orderitem
parcel
The solution should also work in a fast way with 100.000 or more objects stored.

Answering my own question: I have made some tests now. It looks like it is not possible to do this with that object in only 1 objectStore.
An other example object which would work:
var myObject = {
"ordernumber": "123-12345-234",
"name": "Mr. Sample",
"shipping": {"method": "letter",
"company": "Deutsche Post AG" }
}
Creating an index will be done by:
objectStore.createIndex(objectIndexName, objectKeypath, optionalObjectParameters);
With setting objectKeypath it is possible to address a value in the main object like "name":
objectStore.createIndex("name", "name", {unique: false});
It would also be possible to address a value form a subobject of an object like "shipping.method":
objectStore.createIndex("shipping", "shipping.method", {unique: false});
BUT it is not possible to address values like the ones of "track", which are contained in objects, stored in an array. Even something like "parcels[0].track" to get the first value as index does not work.
Anyhow, it would be possible to index all simple elements of an array (but not objects).
So the following more simple structure would allow to create an index entry for each parcelnumber in the array "trackingNumbers":
var simplifiedOrderObject = {
"ordernumber": "123-12345-234",
"name": "Mr. Sample",
"address": "Foostreet 12, 12345 Bar York",
"orderitems": [
{
"item": "brush",
"price": "2.00"
},
{
"item": "phone",
"price": "30.90"
}
],
"trackingNumbers": ["12345", "3254231514"]
}
when creating the index with multiEntry set to true:
objectStore.createIndex("tracking", "trackingNumbers", {unique: false, multiEntry: true});
Anyhow, the missing of the possibility to index object values in arrays, makes using indexedDB really unneeded complicated. It's a failure in design. This forces the developer to do things like in relational DBs, while lacking all the possibilities of SQL. Really bad :(

Change in array format

I want to create a array structure with child entities like this ->
$scope.groups = [
{
"categories": [
{
"name": "PR",
"sortOrder": 0,
"type": "category"
}
],
"name": "DEPT 1",
"sortOrder": 0,
"type": "group",
"id": "-JY_1unVDQ5XKTK87DjN",
"editing": false
}
];
from an array that dosen't have child entities but all the items are listed in one object like this->
$scope.groups = [
{
"name": "PR",
"sortOrder": 0,
"type": "category"
},
{
"name": "AD",
"sortOrder": 3,
"type": "category"
},
{
"name": "DEPT 2",
"sortOrder": 1,
"type": "group",
"id": "-JYZomQKCVseJmaZoIF9",
"editing": false,
"categories": []
},
];
Is there any possible way?

As #Eagle1 has rightly pointed out. You need to define your data model properly to define a function that does that grouping for you. That said, from what I understand you have a $scope.groups array of objects for a specific department containing some categories which you need to consolidate as a child element.
You could start by defining a function that returns an object like you mention:
var organize = function(arr){
cats = [];
dep = {};
$.each( arr, function( i, val ) {
if(val.type == "category")
cats.push(val);
else
dep = val;
});
dep.categories = cats;
return dep;
}
Ultimately, you'll have to traverse the array and look for objects of type category and dump them in an array and have that array as the categories key of the object that you intend to return. I hope it gets you started in the right direction.

of course it is.
It's doable in javascipt although to help you devise something we would need a relationship between categories.
However, that's sounds like something that should be done in your data model (a relationship between dept - category, classic reflexive relationship parent - children). angular should be receiving from the back end an array already ordered.

Complex JSON string Parsing in JavaScript

This is my sample JSON file , which im trying to parse and read the values ....
C = {{
"Travel": {
"ServiceProvider": {
"Name": "SRS",
"Rating": "3 stars",
"Rates": "Nominal",
"Features": {
"OnlineBooking": "Yes",
"SMS_Ticket": "No"
},
"UserDetails": {
"Name": "Jack",
"Age": "33",
"Gender": "Male"
}
},
"BusProvider": {
"Name": "SRS",
"Rating": "3 stars",
"Rates": "Nominal",
"Features": {
"OnlineBooking": "Yes",
"SMS_Ticket": "No"
},
"UserDetails": {
"Name": "Jack",
"Age": "33",
"Gender": "Male"
}
}
}
}
I'm pretty new to JS , and i need to access the nested elements in a generic fashion.
Im not able to extract the details properly. Im getting stuck accessing nested the child elements.
The problem for me is that i wont always know the names of the "key's' to acess them , the JSON will be dynamic , hence i need a generic mechanism to acess the nested child elements. The Nesting can go upto 3 -4 levels.
what notation do we use to access the key / value pairs when the nesting is deep.
Any Help would be appreciated.

ater desirializing your object you can do this
var resultJSON = '{"name":"ricardo","age":"23"}';
var result = $.parseJSON(resultJSON);
$.each(result, function(k, v) {
//display the key
alert(k + ' is the key)
}
you can do it using recursively offcourse like this - Link Here
the way is the same just adapt to your example

For dynamic access you can use brackets notation i.e. var json = {nonKnown: 1}; now you can access it like that:
var unknowPropertyName = "nonKnown";
var value = json[unknownPropertyName];
But if you can not even define dynamically name of the property, then you should use
for(variableName in json){
if(json.hasOwnProperty(variableName)){
console.log(variableName);
}
}
You should get the basic idea from this. Good luck