How can I parse through a JSON file retrieving all its data and using it in my code?
I've tried importing the file and just tried console logging it, but all it does is print Object {}:
import jsonData from "./file.json";
console.log(jsonData);
This is what my file.json looks like:
[
{
"id": 1,
"gender": "Female",
"first_name": "Helen",
"last_name": "Nguyen",
"email": "hnguyen0@bloomberg.com",
"ip_address": "227.211.25.18"
}, {
"id": 2,
"gender": "Male",
"first_name": "Carlos",
"last_name": "Fowler",
"email": "cfowler1@gnu.org",
"ip_address": "214.248.201.11"
}
]
I'd want to be able to access the first and last name of each component and print those on the website.
var data = require('../../file.json'); // forward slashes will depend on the file location
var data = [
{
"id": 1,
"gender": "Female",
"first_name": "Helen",
"last_name": "Nguyen",
"email": "hnguyen0@bloomberg.com",
"ip_address": "227.211.25.18"
}, {
"id": 2,
"gender": "Male",
"first_name": "Carlos",
"last_name": "Fowler",
"email": "cfowler1@gnu.org",
"ip_address": "214.248.201.11"
}
];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
{
var obj = data[i];
console.log("Name: " + obj.first_name + ", " + obj.last_name);
}
https://jsfiddle.net/c9wupvo6/
I also had problems with getting an empty Object back. Even when using require
as suggested above.
fetch
however solved my problem:
fetch('./data/fakeData.json')
.then((res) => res.json())
.then((data) => {
console.log('data:', data);
})
(As of today, the support isn't optimal though: http://caniuse.com/#feat=fetch)
Applications packaged with webpack 2.0.0+ (such as those created with create-react-app) support imports from json exactly as in the question (see this answer.
Be aware that import
caches the result, even if that result is parsed json, so if you modify that object, other modules that also import it have references to the same object, not a newly parsed copy.
To get a "clean" copy, you can make a function that clones it such as:
import jsonData from './file.json';
const loadData = () => JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(jsonData));
Or if you're using lodash:
import jsonData from './file.json';
import { cloneDeep } from 'lodash';
const loadData = () => cloneDeep(jsonData);
For those of you who also have trouble with this, this code seemed to have fixed the problem
var jsonData = require('../../file.json');
class blah extends React.Component {
render(){
var data;
function loadJSON(jsonfile, callback) {
var jsonObj = new XMLHttpRequest();
jsonObj.overrideMimeType("application/json");
jsonObj.open('GET', "../../file.json", true);
jsonObj.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (jsonObj.readyState == 4 && jsonObj.status == "200") {
callback(jsonObj.responseText);
}
};
jsonObj.send(null);
}
function load() {
loadJSON(jsonData, function(response) {
data = JSON.parse(response);
console.log(data);
});
}
load();
}
}