How to access first element of JSON object array?

Question

I exptect that mandrill_events only contains one object. How do I access its event-property?

var req = { mandrill_events: \'[{\"event\":\"inboun         


        

Answer 1

Assuming thant the content of mandrill_events is an object (not a string), you can also use shift() function:

var req = { mandrill_events: [{"event":"inbound","ts":1426249238}] };
var event-property = req.mandrill_events.shift().event;