Joshua Phipps

I am trying to gather weather data (downloaded as .json) via maxurl object. I am able to run this through a basic .js script which pulls all of the data from the first line, { "body": ... of the dict and then parses that to a dict table. However, within that parsed dict table is ANOTHER array, which I cannot pull the needed data from. Using a get into a table object for the dict key I'm after yields an "atomarray-object" as the value. Can anyone help me figure out (perhaps in .js) how I can pull those values from the dict within a dict? I've tried a few other suggestions here but with no success: eg. creating an intermediary dict in my js script, or modifying a few similar solutions using getkeys but still no luck. Any insights are much appreciated!

cbnuit_build_01 copy.maxpat

I am trying to gather weather data (downloaded as .json) via maxurl object.  I am able to run this through a basic .js script which pulls all of the data from the first line, { "body":  ... of the dict and then parses that to a dict table.  However, within that parsed dict table is ANOTHER array, which I cannot pull the needed data from.  Using a get into a table object for the dict key I'm after yields an "atomarray-object" as the value.  Can anyone help me figure out (perhaps in .js) how I can pull those values from the dict within a dict?  I've tried a few other suggestions here but with no success:  eg. creating an intermediary dict in my js script, or modifying a few similar solutions using getkeys but still no luck.  Any insights are much appreciated!

Hi all,
I am trying to gather weather data (downloaded as .json) via maxurl object.  I am able to run this through a basic .js script which 

extracting-dict-within-a-dict-atomarray

The reason you can't access the "dict within a dict" is that it's actually a string (stringified JSON). You need to parse it with the .parse() method of the Dict class in js.

This should replace the value of body with an actual accessible dict.

function bang(){
    var body = new Dict("body")
    var climData = new Dict("ClimData")
    body.parse(climData.get("body"))
    climData.replace("body", body)
}

function bang(){
	var body = new Dict("body")
	var climData = new Dict("ClimData")
	body.parse(climData.get("body"))
	climData.replace("body", body)
}

extracting dict within a dict (atomarray)