Parsing Nested Arrays using VBA and JSON

Question

I have a JSON I am trying to parse in VBA. I have successfully parsed out the array of "offers". Inside the array of "offers" is another array "prices""USD".

The problem is that not every "offers" object has the "USD" array. I am trying to create an object that I can make a table/sheet with but I can't even get the objects to print in debug mode. This works but fails because not every Dict OfferDetails contains the "USD" object.

What I would like to do is be able to print the string and if the "USD" object is missing just skip it and only print the ones that have the "USD". I have tried the IsMissing (in code) but it fails when it hits the missing "USD" object.

Any idea how I can get this string with the "USD" values? Note that the "USD" is an array and contains several objects, but I don't know how to address them either. Ideally I would like to parse out the "USD" the same way I did the "offers". I am totally lost as I am not very good in VBA

This is a working script with a valid web JSON.

  Sub getJSONEP_lib_working()
      'Need the JsonConverter found here https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-JSON
      'Need the Microsoft Scripting Runtime 

      Dim Parsed As Dictionary
      Dim Item As Dictionary
      Dim OfferDetails As Dictionary
      Dim Price As Dictionary
      Dim USD As Dictionary

              URL = "http://wraymac.com/JSON/example1.json"
              url2 = "[{" & """mpn""" & ":" & """41202""" & "}]"

              Set MyRequest = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
              MyRequest.Open "GET", URL
              MyRequest.Send

              JsonString = MyRequest.ResponseText

              Dim json As Object
              Set json = JsonConverter.ParseJson(JsonString)


      Set Parsed = JsonConverter.ParseJson(MyRequest.ResponseText)

         For Each Item In Parsed("results")(1)("items")
           For Each OfferDetails In Item("offers")


      'I tried this it doesn't work, it fails when it finds a non existent "USD"
            If Not IsMissing(OfferDetails("prices")("USD")(1)(1)) Then
            Debug.Print OfferDetails("prices")("USD")(1)(1)
            Else
            Debug.Print "Missing"
            End If


      x = Item("mpn") & "   " & "sku" & " - " & OfferDetails("sku") & "," & "UID" & " - " & OfferDetails("seller")("uid") & "   " & OfferDetails("moq") & "packaging" & " = " & OfferDetails("packaging") & "  " & OfferDetails("seller")("name") & "  " & Item("manufacturer")("name")
      Debug.Print x

      'This works but fails because not every Dict OfferDetails contains the "USD" object
      'x = Item("mpn") & "   " & "sku" & " - " & OfferDetails("sku") & "," & "UID" & " - " & OfferDetails("seller")("uid") & "   " & OfferDetails("moq") & "packaging" & " = " & OfferDetails("packaging") & "  " & OfferDetails("seller")("name") & "  " & Item("manufacturer")("name")& "  "&OfferDetails("prices")("USD")(1)(1)

       Next OfferDetails
           Next

      End Sub

Answer 1

You want to use the Dictionary's Exists method:

Set Parsed = JsonConverter.ParseJson(MyRequest.ResponseText)

For Each Item In Parsed("results")(1)("items")
    For Each OfferDetails In Item("offers")

            If OfferDetails("prices").Exists("USD") Then
                Debug.Print OfferDetails("prices")("USD").Count & " items:"
                Debug.Print "-----------------"
                For Each x In OfferDetails("prices")("USD")
                    Debug.Print x(1), x(2)
                Next x
                Debug.Print "-----------------"
            Else
                Debug.Print "No USD"
            End If

     Next OfferDetails
 Next

The converter parses objects ({}) to dictionaries, and arrays ([]) to collections, so you can use Count to determine the number of items in each of those types of object.