Unable to loop through a JSON object in NodeJS

Question

I have a NODEJS program that uses xml2js to convert XML file to JSON and parse it. I am then trying to loop through the json object and display the ID, LastReportTime for each of them but the output i get says undefined Output ``` 2015-02-26T18:45:35.34-0500 [App/0] OUT BESAPI 2015-02-26T18:45:35.34-0500 [App/0] OUT Computer 2015-02-26T18:45:35.34-0500 [App/0] OUT Computer:undefined 2015-02-26T18:45:35.34-0500 [App/0] OUT Done ``` NodeJS ``` var fs = require('fs'), xml2js = require('xml2js'); var parser = new xml2js.Parser(); fs.readFile('myfile.xml', function(err, data) { parser.parseString(data, function (err, result) { var jsoniem = JSON.stringify(result); console.log(jsoniem); var data = JSON.parse(jsoniem); for (var obj in data) { if (data.hasOwnProperty(obj)) { console.log(obj); console.log("
 
"); if (obj == "BESAPI") { for (var prop in data[obj]) { console.log(prop); if (prop == "Computer") { console.log(prop + ':' + data[obj][prop].ID); console.log(prop + ':' + data[obj][pr…

Accepted Answer

Considering your JSON example iterating over object seems irrelevant. Also there is no need to stringify data first and then parse the string.

```
fs.readFile('myfile.xml', function(err, data) {
  parser.parseString(data, function (err, result) {

var jsoniem = JSON.stringify(result);
    console.log(jsoniem);

result.BESAPI.Computer.forEach(function (el) {
      // Output arrays
      console.log(el.ID);
      console.log(el.LastReportTime);

// Get first elements
      console.log(el.ID[0]);
      console.log(el.LastReportTime[0]);
    });

}

console.log('Done');
});
```

Unable to loop through a JSON object in NodeJS

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