Traverse all the Nodes of a JSON Object Tree with JavaScript

Question

I\'d like to traverse a JSON object tree, but cannot find any library for that. It doesn\'t seem difficult but it feels like reinventing the wheel.

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Answer 1

Depends on what you want to do. Here's an example of traversing a JavaScript object tree, printing keys and values as it goes:

function js_traverse(o) {
    var type = typeof o 
    if (type == "object") {
        for (var key in o) {
            print("key: ", key)
            js_traverse(o[key])
        }
    } else {
        print(o)
    }
}

js> foobar = {foo: "bar", baz: "quux", zot: [1, 2, 3, {some: "hash"}]}
[object Object]
js> js_traverse(foobar)                 
key:  foo
bar
key:  baz
quux
key:  zot
key:  0
1
key:  1
2
key:  2
3
key:  3
key:  some
hash