Why am I getting undefined getting data from my json?

Question

In my angularjs file I stringified my json result

console.log("details... "+JSON.stringify(response));

it is somewhat of this nature

{"data":{"success":true,"errorCode":0,"data":[{"id":1098,"surname":"Tony","firstname":"Wilson","othername":"","dob":"Jun 9, 2000 12:00:00 AM","gender":"MALE",

when I try to console for firstname I get a surprising outcome of undefined

console.log("firstname... "+ response.data.data.firstname) ;

please what could be wrong

Use `response.data.data[0].firstname` as `response.data.data` is an array. — Nikhil Aggarwal, Jul 18 '18 at 08:50
your data response is an array (_for no reason?_), try `response.data.data[0].firstname` — Aleksey Solovey, Jul 18 '18 at 08:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:51

The response.data.data is an array, that's what the square brackets are []. You must first access the item itself before accessing the firstname attribute on that item.

For example, to get the first item, you would do

console.log(response.data.data[0].firstname)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:54

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Instead of:

console.log("firstname... "+ response.data.data.firstname) ;

Do:

console.log("firstname... "+ response.data.data[0].firstname) ;

This happens because firstname is a key to an object which is inside an array named data.

answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:54

BlackBeard

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 09:02

Your final data is an array. You have to specify index on that:

var response = {"data":{"success":true,"errorCode":0,"data":[{"id":1098,"surname":"Tony","firstname":"Wilson","othername":"","dob":"Jun 9, 2000 12:00:00 AM","gender":"MALE"}]}};
console.log("firstname... "+ response.data.data[0].firstname)

Why am I getting undefined getting data from my json?

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