(Lianja) JSON: Array of Objects

Here we have a JSON object that contains an array, where each element in the array is a JSON object. This example demonstrates how to access the objects contained within an array.

{ 
  "employees":[
    {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},
    {"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},
    {"firstName":"Peter","lastName":"Jones"}
  ]
}

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loJson = createobject("CkJsonObject")

// This is the above JSON with whitespace chars removed (SPACE, TAB, CR, and LF chars).
// The presence of whitespace chars for pretty-printing makes no difference to the Load
// method. 
lcJsonStr = '{"employees":[{"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},{"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},{"firstName":"Peter","lastName":"Jones"}]}'

llSuccess = loJson.Load(lcJsonStr)
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loJson.LastErrorText
    release loJson
    return
endif

// Get the "employees" array.
loEmployees = loJson.ArrayOf("employees")
if (loJson.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
    ? "employees member not found."
    release loJson
    return
endif

// Iterate over each employee, getting the JSON object at each index.
lnNumEmployees = loEmployees.Size
i = 0
do while i < lnNumEmployees

    loEmpObj = loEmployees.ObjectAt(i)

    ? "employee[" + str(i) + "] = " + loEmpObj.StringOf("firstName") + " " + loEmpObj.StringOf("lastName")
    release loEmpObj

    i = i + 1
enddo

release loEmployees


release loJson