How to read such a nested json array in Qt? - c++

Question

Im trying to read json file with qt c++. After reading i will do some operations. I've read my json like it, but i want to print spesific datas, which include "float".
After finding them, i will assign a value each of these.
Thanks for any help
{
"A":[
{
"GPS":[
{
"GPS ID":[
"integer",
"0"
],
"GPS Mod":[
"integer",
"1"
],
"GPS Utc":[
"float",
"2"
],
"GPS Latitude":[
"float",
"3"
],
"GPS Longitude":[
"float",
"4"
]
}
]
Here is what I have tried up to now:
QByteArray data = file.readAll();
QJsonDocument doc = QJsonDocument::fromJson(data);
QJsonObject root = doc.object();
QJsonArray tlmtArray = root.value("A").toArray();
for(int i=0; i<tlmtArray.size(); i++)
{
QJsonObject obj = tlmtArray.at(i).toObject();
}

Answer 1

Actually, you seem to already know what you need to do to handle Json data, you just have to continue to unpack your nested structures until the leaf data.
I'm not sure what was your issue, you just had to continue what you were doing but anyway, I have written an example that prints in the console the inner GPS data of the following structure (the one that you provided, I just added the missing braces and brackets):
{
"A":
[
{
"GPS":
[
{
"GPS ID":[
"integer",
"0"
],
"GPS Mod":[
"integer",
"1"
],
"GPS Utc":[
"float",
"2"
],
"GPS Latitude":[
"float",
"3"
],
"GPS Longitude":[
"float",
"4"
]
}
]
}
]
}
Here is the example function:
int printJsonData(const QByteArray & json_data)
{
QJsonParseError err;
QJsonDocument doc = QJsonDocument::fromJson(json_data, &err);
if(err.error != QJsonParseError::NoError)
return -1; // Failure
QJsonObject root = doc.object();
QJsonArray tlmtArray = root.value("A").toArray();
for(int i = 0; i < tlmtArray.size(); ++i)
{
QJsonObject obj = tlmtArray[i].toObject();
QJsonArray gps_array = obj.value("GPS").toArray();
for(int j = 0; j < gps_array.size(); ++j)
{
QJsonObject gps_obj = gps_array[j].toObject();
for(QJsonObject::const_iterator cit = gps_obj.constBegin(); cit != gps_obj.constEnd(); ++cit)
{
std::cout << cit.key().toStdString() << ": (";
QJsonArray inner_data = cit.value().toArray();
for(int k = 0; k < inner_data.size(); ++k)
{
std::cout << inner_data[k].toString().toStdString() << (k < inner_data.size()-1 ? "," : "");
}
std::cout << ")\n";
}
}
}
return 0;
}
Output:
GPS ID: (integer,0)
GPS Latitude: (float,3)
GPS Longitude: (float,4)
GPS Mod: (integer,1)
GPS Utc: (float,2)
Please note that you really should use the methods QJsonObject::contains(), QJsonValue::isArray(), QJsonValue::isObject() and QJsonValue::isString() that Qt provides in order to check that the data you are extracting are exactly what you expect them to be. I didn't write such checks in the example because it is just an example and I wanted to avoid clutter and make the code less readable.