How can I easily have a javascript function to parse out specific objects from json string

Question

I would like to pull out each of these fields and put them into a their own variable in javascript

{
  "did": "00022B9A000000010001",
   "ps": -1,
   "hostName": "zs-dptpre-002.mr.corp.l.com",
   "ipAddress": "10.4.225.29"
}

Answer 1

In ES6 you can use object destructuring

 var obj = { "did": "00022B9A000000010001", "ps": -1, "hostName": "zs-dptpre-002.mr.corp.l.com", "ipAddress": "10.4.225.29" } var {did, ps, hostName, ipAddress} = obj; console.log(hostName) 

Other (non ES6) way would be to use Object.keys() and forEach() loop and create variable for each key in obj using global window object

 var obj = { "did": "00022B9A000000010001", "ps": -1, "hostName": "zs-dptpre-002.mr.corp.l.com", "ipAddress": "10.4.225.29" } Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(k) { window[k] = obj[k]; }); console.log(ipAddress); console.log(did); 

Answer 2

Or you could use a Xpath like syntax in JSON using JSONPath . See here for details about this version. In the following example I'm getting all object properties values (the leafs).

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