Retrieving Data From JSON Objects

Question

I'm very new to JSON, so please don't scald me. I'm trying to find a way to retrieve information from this bit of data, but I'm having zero luck.

var services = [ "Hernia Repair", "Hip Replacement" ... ];

var places = {
  "place": [
      {
        "name": "The Whittington Hospital",        
        "service": [
          "Hernia Repair",
            {
              "ratings": [
                { "name": "John Doe", "score": 4, "review": "Some text here." },
                { "name": "Jane Doe", "score": 5, "review": "Some more text." }
              ]
            }
            ...
          ]
      },
  ]
};

I'm trying to grab the name of the service and it's ratings's name and score and I've been trying to output it to the console like this:

places.place[0].service.ratings.name
places.place[0].service.ratings.score

But that doesn't seem to be working. If anyone could lend a hand to explain if my nesting is correct or if I'm retrieving them in the correct way.

Any help with this is appreciated.

P.S. Is there also a way to elegantly link the "Hernia Repair" string in the services array to the "Hernia Repair" string in the place object?

Please note that your problem has nothing to do with JSON at all! You are working with JavaScript arrays and objects, not with JSON. — Felix Kling, Jul 30 '14 at 22:02
I am a bit annoyed this has been closed as a duplicate, because 50% of the problem here is not explained in that answer: http://jsfiddle.net/W5yY9/1/ — Fenton, Jul 30 '14 at 22:11
@SteveFenton Thanks for this! But is there an elegant way to have more than one `service` without repeating the `service` object over and over again? — realph, Jul 31 '14 at 12:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '14 at 22:01

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Service is a list, and ratings is a list, so this should do it:

places.place[0].service[1].ratings[0].name

answered Jul 30 '14 at 22:01

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