Renaming a field in an object

Question

If I have the following object:

JsonObj = {
    \"frames\": {
        \"cinema\": {
            \"sourceSize\": { \"w\": 256, \"h\": 200 },
            \"fra         


        

Answer 1

Set the somethingElse as a reference to what frames points to, then delete frames.

parsedJSON.somethingElse = parsedJSON.frames;
delete parsedJSON.frames;

The important thing here is that frames is simply a pointer to an object; if you delete the frames pointer, somethingElse still references a valid object.

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^{Also note there's no such thing as a "JSON object"; you have a JSON representation of an object, which is a string, or you have an object (which can often be defined via object literal notation, which is often where the confusion lies).}