From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T12:36:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing nested JSON data



On Nov 23, 7:30 pm, Marko Anastasov <marko.anasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From a web API, I receive a JSON stream such as:
>
> [{"u":"http://...html","d":"some title","t":["ruby"]},
> {"u":"http://....org/","d":"another title","t":
> ["ruby","json","library"]},...]
>
> Now, among the rest, I also want to access those "ruby", "json" and
> "library" strings.
> With the following code:
>
> @structs = JSON.parse(@json_stream)
>
> for i in 0...@structs.length
>   @struct_obj = @structs.fetch(i)
>   @struct_obj.each { |key, value|
>     if key == "t"
>       # get the value that 't' points to
>     end
>   }
> end
>
> I get them all appended to each other without any whitespace, ie
> "rubyjsonlibrary".
>
> How could I access them individually?

7stud probably covered your question, so if you don't mind I'd like to
hijack this thread and ask a more general question about JSON
parsing...

Is it possible that JSON could be built into Ruby? The syntax is so
close to Ruby's as of 1.9, that it seems a small step and rather a
shame not to just go ahead and make it compatible. Off hand it seems
that only quoted keys are missing.

T.