Parsing and playing with JSON in Javascript

JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a popular data format on web now-a-days. Since, its easier for both humans and computers to read and process it, most web-applications support JSON as input format.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to extract useful data from JSON i.e. parsing a JSON using JavaScript since JavaScript is used for processing in web applications and websites. We will take different formats of JSON as input and parse them accordingly. Most important things is we always parse a JSON using the keys of the Data we want to extract.
Sample JSON "Key-Value" format :
{
Key1 : "value1",
Key2 : "value2",
Key3 : "value3",
and so on ....
}
Now suppose you have a JSON text in javascript variable and you wish to convert it into a Javascript object as JSON, you can use simply JSON.parse() function. It converts JSON text to JSON object.
A small example for you :
var text = '{ "ID" : 928,' +
'"Name": "Chahit Kumar",'
'"Birth": "1993",'
'"Website": "techyspace"'
'}';
var data=JSON.parse(text);
//now information from JSON text can be extracted from Javascript object "data" easily.
So now, since we have JSON in javascript object, let's get started with parsing various JSON formats in javascript :
First Type
{
ID: 928,
Name: "Chahit Kumar",
Birth: "1993",
Website: "techyspace"
}
So if we have JSON in a simple format above, we can simple parse it this way by accessing Keys in JSON :
//Suppose above JSON is stored in a Javascript variable data
//Suppose above JSON is stored in a Javascript variable data
var id=data['ID'];//access ID key of data
var name=data['Name'];
var bday=data['Birth'];
var site=data['Website'];
Second Type
{
ID: 928,
Name: "Chahit Kumar",
info : {
            Birth: "1993",
            Website: "techyspace"
          }
}
Now we, can access ID and Name the same we learnt before and to parse Info part of JSON, we ways are there :
//Suppose above JSON is stored in a Javascript variable data
var birth=data['info']['Birth'];//same way which we used earlier
Or by using a dot operator the following way :
var site=data.info['Website'];//data dot info will help us get to next level of braces curly {}
Third Type
{
ID: 928,
Name: "Chahit Kumar",
info : [{
            Birth: "1993",
            Place: "India"
          },
          {
          Graduate:"Bachelor of Technology",
           Year : "2014"
           }
          ]
}
In above type of JSON, we have to parse info list (a list is surrounded by stapler brackets [] ) :
var info=data.info;
Now we can extract information from each map (a map is surrounded by curly brackes {}) :
var info=data.info;
var birthInfo=info[0];//accessing first map of info list
var birth=birthInfo['Birth'];//or directly we can write info[0]['Birth']
So these are the ways we can parse a JSON in JavaScript easily.
Hope you might have understood and got clarity with this topic, if have some doubts and queries feel free to put your thoughts in comments.

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