Using $.get on properties with forward slash

[nickhumble]

Hi,

We have an array of the following structure:
{

    "/position/fte": {

      "humanReadable": "100",

      "value": 100

    },

    "/position/field_2354914": {

      "humanReadable": "ALQhtani & Partners",

      "value": "257532069"

    },

    "/position/field_2355402": {

      "humanReadable": "fhdfhjf",

      "value": "fhdfhjf"

    },

    "/position/field_7424424": {

      "humanReadable": "Indirect",

      "value": "257905227"

    },

    "/position/field_2355398": {

      "humanReadable": "Central Operations",

      "value": "257475809"

    },

    "/position/field_7424427": {

      "humanReadable": "Support",

      "value": "257905230"

    },

    "/position/job": {

      "humanReadable": "Information Technology \\ 2a",

      "value": 4807663

    },

    "/position/name": {

      "humanReadable": "P-1486729",

      "value": "P-1486729"

    },

    "/position/field_2355401": {

      "humanReadable": "Birmingham - Snow Hill",

      "value": "257529525"

    },

    "/position/department": {

      "humanReadable": "Legal Operations",

      "value": "257475756"

    },

    "/position/field_2355404": {

      "humanReadable": "Hybrid Worker",

      "value": "257781843"

    },

    "/position/field_7424426": {

      "humanReadable": "Support",

      "value": "258131652"

    },

    "/position/site": {

      "humanReadable": "England",

      "value": 2477909

    },

    "/position/field_7424425": {

      "humanReadable": "Support",

      "value": "258046626"

    },

    "/position/field_2355400": {

      "humanReadable": "Audit - Australia",

      "value": "257476016"

    },

    "/position/field_2355399": {

      "humanReadable": "Business Services",

      "value": "257475770"

    }

  }

Not all of the items in the array have the same properties, so I've been looking at using $.get to workaround this.  However using something like:

$.get("['/position/field_7424425'].value")

always returns null.

I can use $.hasPath("['/position/field_7424425'].value") to check if it exists and it correctly returns true/false so can use a ternary operator but would prefer to use .get if possible.

Can anyone advise?

[koryknick]

@nickhumble - could you simply enable the "Null-safe access" option and always reference the values you're looking for?  If it doesn't exist, it will just be a null value.  This would bypass the need for the get() method, which as you have found out, can't be used under multiple levels of object nesting.

[nickhumble · Accepted solution]

Thanks @koryknick - this might just be the simplistic genius i was looking for!

[koryknick]

If that doesn't work for you, then try this:

$.get('/position/field_2354910', {}).get('value')

Since the Object.get() method allows you to provide a default if the field doesn't exist, this example returns an empty object, so calling the next get() on the empty object will also return null.

Hope this helps!

[nickhumble]

Thanks - my problem was i couldn't get a non-null value using .get, no matter what i tried. I wondered whether the forward slashes were confusing it or something, but .hasPath worked ok so i'm a bit stumped.

Your earlier suggestion has worked well though - thank you.