How to read a JSON file containing multiple root elements?

Question

If I had a file whose contents looked like:

{\"one\": 1}
{\"two\": 2}

I could simply parse each separate line as a separate JSON object (us

Answer 1

You can also use this custom function to parse multiple root elements even if you have complex objects.

    static getParsedJson(jsonString) {
      const parsedJsonArr = [];
      let tempStr = '';
      let isObjStartFound = false;
      for (let i = 0; i < jsonString.length; i += 1) {
          if (isObjStartFound) {
              tempStr += jsonString[i];
              if (jsonString[i] === '}') {
                  try {
                      const obj = JSON.parse(tempStr);
                      parsedJsonArr.push(obj);
                      tempStr = '';
                      isObjStartFound = false;
                  } catch (err) {
                      // console.log("not a valid JSON object");
                  }
              }
          }
          if (!isObjStartFound && jsonString[i] === '{') {
              tempStr += jsonString[i];
              isObjStartFound = true;
          }
       }
       return parsedJsonArr;
   }