I have a string that looks like the following:
{
"results": [
{
"address_components": [
{
"long_name": "Ireland",
"short_name": "Ireland",
"types": [
"establishment",
"natural_feature"
]
}
],
"formatted_address": "Ireland",
"geometry": {
"bounds": {
"northeast": {
"lat": 55.38294149999999,
"lng": -5.431909999999999
},
"southwest": {
"lat": 51.4475448,
"lng": -10.4800237
}
}],
"status" : "OK"
}
I want to turn this into a json that I can easily traverse. However when I call JSON.parse() on this string I get a json array that is a pain to traverse. I want to be able to extract the lat and lng from northeast without having to loop through the entire array.
var json = `{
"results": [
{
"address_components": [
{
"long_name": "Ireland",
"short_name": "Ireland",
"types": [
"establishment",
"natural_feature"
]
}
],
"formatted_address": "Ireland",
"geometry": {
"bounds": {
"northeast": {
"lat": 55.38294149999999,
"lng": -5.431909999999999
},
"southwest": {
"lat": 51.4475448,
"lng": -10.4800237
}
}
}
}
],
"status" : "OK"
}`;
var data = JSON.parse(json);
var bounds = data.results[0].geometry.bounds;
var bound = bounds.northeast || bounds.southwest;
console.log(bound.lat, bound.lng);
If you know northeast is always an option you can simplify this to:
console.log(data.results[0].geometry.bounds.northeast);
That will give you your lat and lng.