Extract only values from JSON object in javascript without using a loop

Question

is there a \"Nice\" way to get all the values out of a json object (I don\'t care about the keys) - just get the values into array, without using a loop ? (lang is Javascr

Answer 1

Recursively extract as text

Yes, this is a loop but the underlying methods you are calling such as Object.values or arr.map are still loops. I found this useful for extracting text out of a json object for full text search in particular and thought it useful as I came here initially needing this but the answers only touched the surface as json is recursive in nature.

function textFromJson(json) {
    if (json === null || json === undefined) {
      return '';
    }
    if (!Array.isArray(json) && !Object.getPrototypeOf(json).isPrototypeOf(Object)) {
      return '' + json;
    }
    const obj = {};
    for (const key of Object.keys(json)) {
        obj[key] = textFromJson(json[key]);
    }
    return Object.values(obj).join(' ');
}