Can't access JSON object array

Question

I have the following JSON object (accessed through item):

I don't know why this is stumping me, but to access the values of divisions, I would do either item.divisions or item["divisions"], right? I'm getting undefined when I try both of those options. What's going on? Am I not accessing the data correctly?

Aaand, here it is:

//options has information like hostname, path, etc.
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', function (item) {
    console.log(item); //this is the JSON that you're seeing
    console.log(item.kind); //undefined
  });
});

Answer 1

You need to parse the JSON into a Javascript object.

//options has information like hostname, path, etc.
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', function (response) {
    console.log(response); //this is the JSON that you're seeing
    item = JSON.parse(response);
    console.log(item.kind);
  });
});

Answer 2

I think your problem can be solved like this ,

var x = "YOUR JSON"

x.divisions gives you the object

Object {ocd-division/country:us/state:me/sldl:141: Object, ocd-division/country:us: Object, ocd-division/country:us/state:me/county:washington/council_district:1: Object, ocd-division/country:us/state:me/cd:2: Object, ocd-division/country:us/state:me/place:princeton: Object…}

Your key has string and your value is Object

You can further access it like

var p = x.divisions

 for (var key in p) {
  if (p.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
    console.log(key + " -> " + p[key]);
  }
}

Hope it helps !!