Parsing nested JSON using JSON Schema or Classes

Question

I have a large nested JSON response in following sample format:

{
  "type": "folder",
  "path": "Path1",
  "owner": "user1",
  "entries": [{
    "type": "folder",
    "path": "Path2",
    "owner": "user1",
    "entries": [{
        "type": "folder",
        "path": "Path3",
        "owner": "user1"
      },
      {
        "type": "file",
        "path": "FullFilePath1",
        "owner": "user1"
      }
    ]
  }]
}

I wanted to extract all the file type with selected keys and also add additional keys:

{
  "type": "file",
  "path": "FullFilePath1",
  "Application": "My Application",
  "UpdatedTime": "Time"
}

I am using nodejs. I need inputs in parsing the JSON file in best way. I was trying to check if I can use JSON Schema and Classes to do this but still didnt get through.

Could you please guide me?

Answer 1

Since you are dealing with JSON, you can simply load it into a JavaScript variable using require:

let data = require('./data.json');

You can then loop the variable for all entries tag

let fileData = require('./data.json');
let allEntries = [];
loadEntries(fileData);
function loadEntries(data) {
    if(data.entries) {
        for (let index = 0; index < data.entries.length; index++) {
            const entry = data.entries[index];
            // Do something with the entry
            allEntries.push(entry);
            loadEntries(entry);
        }
    }
}