Perhaps a simple question but I am still new to JS / nodeJS.
I have a script that is doing some basic string matching (dict.js), and I am trying to access a JSON formatted object from another file (words.json) to iterate through.
The directory structure looks like:
scratch
- algorithms
- dict.js
- utilities
- words.json
The contents of the files are:
words.json
{"a": 1,"aa": 1,"aaa": 1,"aah": 1,"aahed": 1,"aahing": 1,"aahs": 1,"aal": 1}
dict.js
decode (password) {
const jsonData = require('../utilities/words.json');
myObj = JSON.parse(jsonData);
for (const x in myObj) {
console.log(x)
// compare password against item in words.json
}
console.log(Object.keys(myObj).length)
return "stub";
}
I am getting an error in developer tools when I create a block (this is the backend to a block in Scratch) that uses this Decode function.
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1
Thanks
In nodejs environment you can directly import json file data without parsing it. For exaple:
const myObj = require('../utilities/words');
This gives you the data in your json file as a ready-to-go object.
In your case, you are trying to parse json object with JSON.parse() which expects stringified json. So just remove the part JSON.parse(jsonData);