Read and calculate data with JS from JSON file
Question
how can I read specific data from a JSON file and use that data again in Javascript.
Example: I have a .JSON file that has thousands of records of planets outside our solar system. There's a column in JSON (well, in CVS at least when I converted it to JSON) that has all that information about all of these planets calculated in distance in parsec.
I want to be able to calculate what the average is of all of these planets and alert this number through simple javascript.
This is how these planets are listed in JSON:
"Distance [pc]": 110.62,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 4742,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
I am very new to JSON so this might be an easy enough answer for JSON experts to answer. Hope you can help, thanks!
PS: I added the JSON file thinking it would help you in understanding and answering the question. Here's a temporary URL to it I uploaded.
EDIT:
Here's more of a chunk of the JSON code
[
{
"rowid": 1,
"Host name": "11 Com",
"Number of Planets in System": 1,
"Planet Mass or M*sin(i)[Jupiter mass]": 19.4,
"Planet Radius [Jupiter radii]": null,
"Planet Density [g": {
"cm**3]": null
},
"Distance [pc]": 110.62,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 4742,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
},
{
"rowid": 2,
"Host name": "11 UMi",
"Number of Planets in System": 1,
"Planet Mass or M*sin(i)[Jupiter mass]": 10.5,
"Planet Radius [Jupiter radii]": null,
"Planet Density [g": {
"cm**3]": null
},
"Distance [pc]": 119.47,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 4340,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
},
{
"rowid": 3,
"Host name": "14 And",
"Number of Planets in System": 1,
"Planet Mass or M*sin(i)[Jupiter mass]": 4.8,
"Planet Radius [Jupiter radii]": null,
"Planet Density [g": {
"cm**3]": null
},
"Distance [pc]": 76.39,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 4813,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
},
{
"rowid": 4,
"Host name": "14 Her",
"Number of Planets in System": 1,
"Planet Mass or M*sin(i)[Jupiter mass]": 4.64,
"Planet Radius [Jupiter radii]": null,
"Planet Density [g": {
"cm**3]": null
},
"Distance [pc]": 18.15,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 5311,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
}]
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2 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2016-08-30 13:06:00
If your JSON is string format, you can do something like this
var jsonObjects = JSON.parse("yourJsonString");
var distanceSum = 0;
for(var i=0; i<jsonObjects.length;i++){
var distance = jsonObjects[i]["Distance [pc]"];
distanceSum = distanceSum + distance;
//do something with distance
}
alert("Average distance " + (distanceSum / jsonObjects.length));
EDIT: If json is located on some endpoint, you can use jQuery library.
$.get('url/jsonFile.json', function(jsonObjects){
var distanceSum = 0;
for(var i=0; i<jsonObjects.length;i++){
var distance = jsonObjects[i]["Distance [pc]"];
distanceSum = distanceSum + distance;
}
alert("Average distance " + (distanceSum / jsonObjects.length));
});
EDIT 2:
Assuming your file structure is following:
index.html
jsonFile.json
you should use following snippet
Index.html
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
$.get('jsonFile.json', function(jsonObjects){
var distanceSum = 0;
for(var i=0; i<jsonObjects.length;i++){
var distance = jsonObjects[i]["Distance [pc]"];
distanceSum = distanceSum + distance;
}
alert("Average distance " + (distanceSum / jsonObjects.length));
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
solution2
0 2016-08-30 13:09:41
Hope this will help you..
var data = [{
"rowid": 1,
"Host name": "11 Com",
"Number of Planets in System": 1,
"Planet Mass or M*sin(i)[Jupiter mass]": 19.4,
"Planet Radius [Jupiter radii]": null,
"Planet Density [g": {
"cm**3]": null
},
"Distance [pc]": 110.62,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 4742,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
}, {
"rowid": 2,
"Host name": "11 UMi",
"Number of Planets in System": 1,
"Planet Mass or M*sin(i)[Jupiter mass]": 10.5,
"Planet Radius [Jupiter radii]": null,
"Planet Density [g": {
"cm**3]": null
},
"Distance [pc]": 119.47,
"Effective Temperature [K]": 4340,
"Date of Last Update": "5/14/2014"
}]
Now data is an array of objects, to get the first object you need to give data[0] and for second you need to give data[1] and so on. to get the distance from first object you can simply call data[0]["Distance [pc]"] , You can simply calculate it using a for loop based on the length of the data
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