# JSON format error
**URL:** https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 12, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326 "2016-07-12T12:44:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Frederik\_Bruun](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Frederik_Bruun)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/1 "2016-07-12T12:44:08Z")
I am trying to fetch JSON data, but I cannot seem to get it processed to the right format. The JSON I want to fetch looks like this: `{"someName":{"id":55514376,"name":"SomeName2","profileIconId":533}}`
Is there any way to display the someName and then the attributes it has?
If I am using this code: `` it does not work. If I edit the JSON to be only the attributes, like this: `[{"id":55514376,"name":"SomeName2","profileIconId":533}]` , it works fine.
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### Author:  [@Anders\_Lassen](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Anders_Lassen)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/2 "2016-07-12T13:03:20Z")
Hi,
In your first dataset, it looks like what you want is ``. Does that help?
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### Author:  [@Frederik\_Bruun](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Frederik_Bruun)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/3 "2016-07-12T13:11:23Z")
> **Anders Lassen wrote:**
>
> Hi,
>
> In your first dataset, it looks like what you want is ``. Does that help?
Kind of! :). I had to add in the beginning and in the end of the JSON for it to work. Is there a way so the brackets are not needed? Since the JSON I get from the api doesn’t include the brackets.
Maybe I can just add the brackets to the observable I created, or?
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### Author:  [@Anders\_Lassen](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Anders_Lassen)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/4 "2016-07-12T13:15:41Z")
If you are using your data in an `Each`, then yes, it must be an array. Otherwise you shouldn’t need to.
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### Author:  [@Frederik\_Bruun](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Frederik_Bruun)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/5 "2016-07-12T13:29:37Z")
Makes sense :).
If I have a lot of different unknown “someName” is there a way to get all of those and their attributes?
I’m using this json for the testing: `[https://api.myjson.com/bins/4echf](https://api.myjson.com/bins/4echf)` (I’ve changed someName to frederik)
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### Author:  [@Frederik\_Bruun](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Frederik_Bruun)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/6 "2016-07-12T13:44:31Z")
> **FrederikBruun wrote:**
>
> Makes sense :).
>
> If I have a lot of different unknown “someName” is there a way to get all of those and their attributes?
>
> I’m using this json for the testing: `[https://api.myjson.com/bins/4echf](https://api.myjson.com/bins/4echf)` (I’ve changed someName to frederik)
Or rather JSON of this format:
`{"champions":[{"id":266,"active":true,"botEnabled":false,"freeToPlay":false,"botMmEnabled":false,"rankedPlayEnabled":true},{"id":103,"active":true,"botEnabled":false,"freeToPlay":false,"botMmEnabled":true,"rankedPlayEnabled":true},{"id":84,"active":true,"botEnabled":false,"freeToPlay":false,"botMmEnabled":true,"rankedPlayEnabled":true},{"id":12,"active":true,"botEnabled":true,"freeToPlay":false,"botMmEnabled":true,"rankedPlayEnabled":true},{"id":32,"active":true,"botEnabled":true,"freeToPlay":false,"botMmEnabled":true,"rankedPlayEnabled":true}]}`
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### Author:  [@Anders\_Lassen](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Anders_Lassen)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/7 "2016-07-12T13:50:52Z")
> If I have a lot of different unknown “someName” is there a way to get all of those and their attributes?
I didn’t understand the question, sorry
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### Author:  [@Frederik\_Bruun](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Frederik_Bruun)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/8 "2016-07-12T14:02:00Z")
Let’s say I want to list all of the different id’s in the JSON above. How could I do that? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Anders\_Lassen](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Anders_Lassen)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/9 "2016-07-12T14:37:50Z")
List them how? In the app UI?
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### Author:  [@petterroea](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/petterroea)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/10 "2016-07-12T14:38:47Z")
I am assuming you are fetching this data from a web-api. The biggest challenge when doing that, is that you need to convert the data to an observable, and make your `someName`'s reachable from ux by converting them to values instead of a key.
Have a look at this for some information on how that is done: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/983267/access-the-first-property-of-an-object](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/983267/access-the-first-property-of-an-object)
Here is an example that downloads your json file, and converts it to something we can show in UX:
```auto
var Observable = require("FuseJS/Observable");
var userData = Observable();
fetch('https://api.myjson.com/bins/4echf').then(function(response) {
return response.json();
}).then(function(value) {
userData.replaceAll(value); //Fill an observable with the data
});
module.exports = {
users: userData.map(function(item) {
return {name: Object.keys(item)[0],
data: item[Object.keys(item)[0]]};
})
};
```
This is what we are doing:
- `fetch`ing your json file, and parsing the json from it
- Feed the parsed json into an observable we call `userData`(we use `replaceAll` since the json’s root container is an array, so we expect multiple users)
- Map every entry in the `userData` array to another observable, where we map the key, `somename`, to the value of a key called `name`, and the value of `someName` to `data`.
The converted array should look something like this:
```auto
[{"name": "frederik", "data": {"id":55238276,"name":"Frederik","profileIconId":531,"summonerLevel":30,"revisionDate":1467543446000}}]
```
Note that you can avoid all this by having `someName` as a value, not a key, in your json data.
Have fun 🙂
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### Author:  [@Frederik\_Bruun](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Frederik_Bruun)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/json-format-error/5326/11 "2016-07-12T14:52:00Z")
Thanks a lot to both of you! 🙂
I’ll take a look at this later when I have the time.