Accessing JSON values in an express web server

Question

I was able to use the code in this answer to access a value in a JSON string posted to the server.

If the server gets {"MyKey":"My Value"} then the value for "MyKey" can be accessed with request.body.MyKey.

But the JSON strings that get sent to my server look like this:

[{"id":"1","name":"Aaa"},{"id":"2","name":"Bbb"}]

I could not find a way to access anything in that. How do you do it?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '12 at 02:33

request.body is a standard JavaScript object and in your case a vanilla JavaScript array. You would just handle request.body like you would any JavaScript Array object. e.g.

app.post('/', function(request, response){
  var users = request.body;
  console.log(users.length);   // the length of the array

  var firstUser = users[0];    // access first element in array
  console.log(firstUser.name); // log the name

  users.forEach(function(item) { console.log(item) }); // iterate the array logging each item

  ...

Accessing JSON values in an express web server

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