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JavaScript/JSON: Get unknown property of an object

If I have a JSON object like this:

{
    "message": {
        "name": { "stringLengthTooShort": "blub" }
    }
}

The name of the property (here) stringLengthTooShort is changing every time, how could I simply just get the child property of name with JS? At the moment I have message.name but how could I get now the child of it?

Solution

  • if it's always the first property of message.name, you could do something like:

    var keys = [];
for (var l in message.name) {
  if (message.name.hasOwnProperty(l)){
    keys.push(l);
  }
}
//=>first property value should now be in message.name[keys[0]]);
//  (its label is keys[0])

    Edit: nine years after this answer all modern browsers support es20xx, so it's safe to use:

    const obj = {
    "message": {
        "name": { "stringLengthTooShort": "blub" }
    }
};

console.log(Object.keys(obj.message.name)[0]);