JSON object returns undefined value

Question

I am receiving a JSON object from a http call and I am trying to extract values from it. JSON object contains:

data:{\"userid\":\"007\", \"role\":\"spy\"}
         


        

Answer 1

According to the second line of your log (the call to JSON.stringify()), your data is actually an array of objects:

[{"userid":"007", "role":"spy"}]

If it was an object as you are expecting, it would look like this:

{"userid":"007", "role":"spy"}

(the difference is subtle, but notice the missing square brackets)

Try this:

currentUserRole = data[0].role;

Obviously in production-ready code, you probably need to do some extra sanity checking to ensure that data is in fact an array containing at least one element.

Answer 2

It is a list. Try data[0].role