Iterate and change all occurrences of given fields in JSON

Question

I have a JSON object.
I need to change values of all occurrences of a given field of it.
For example:

{
  email:"[email protected]",
  person: {  
    email:"[email protected]"  
  },  
  mother: {  
    name: "AAA",  
    email:"[email protected]",  
    friend: {  
      email:"[email protected]"  
    }
  }  
 }

I need to find all emailfields and change their values based on their values.

I know how to iterate through one level of a JSON, I do not know how to iterate through all levels.

Thank you! :-)

Possible duplicate of [iterating through json object javascript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19323699/iterating-through-json-object-javascript) — Anurag Srivastava, Feb 28 '19 at 11:11
@ellipsis yes, I want to take given email value and change it according to it's value. — Jacek Wojcik, Feb 28 '19 at 11:34
like `if(email =='[email protected]'){email = '[email protected]'}`? — techie_28, Feb 28 '19 at 11:36

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 28 '19 at 11:27

First of all this is not a JSON object, it is a simple JavaScript object.

Then you can use recursion to loop through all the object levels, and check if the iterated property holds an object so process it again otherwise if it's email so change it.

function process(obj) {
  for (var key in obj) {
    if (typeof obj[key] == 'object') {
      process(obj[key]);
    } else if (key == "email") {
      obj[key] = "new email value";
    }
  }
}

Note:

I used the string "new email value" as new value for email, but you can change it accordingly with your desired value.

Demo:

var data = {
  email: "[email protected]",
  person: {
    email: "[email protected]"
  },
  mother: {
    name: "AAA",
    email: "[email protected]",
    friend: {
      email: "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

function process(obj) {
  for (var key in obj) {
    if (typeof obj[key] == 'object') {
      process(obj[key]);
    } else if (key == "email") {
      obj[key] = "new email value";
    }
  }
}
process(data);
console.log(data);

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '19 at 11:19

Use the same style recursive function as in my answer here, just modify it slightly:

function changeEmail(obj, newEmail) {
  Object.keys(obj).forEach(key => {
    if (key == "email") {
      obj[key] = newEmail;
    }
    if (typeof obj[key] == "object") {
      changeEmail(obj[key], newEmail);
    }
  });
}

Iterate and change all occurrences of given fields in JSON

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