Need something more than cJSON_GetStringValue for an array

[elear]

Consider a JSON array that looks like the following:

"ArrayName" : [ 1, 2, 3 ]

Now you want to reference each of these objects. You have at your disposal, as recommended, the cJSON_ArrayForEach() macro, which returns a cJSON element. Now what do you do? If the array elements were strings, you would just do cJSON_GetStringValue(element). But you want the number (or whatever type your array is; imagine if it's nested). My suggestion: add appropriate convenience macros that match cJSON_Is{...}.

[flukkyy]

hi, i don't know if you or anyone else needs this, but i encountered the same problem today and i found a solution so you can read items from an array or item from in object inside an array, well, first let's consider this json format :

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "isAlive": true,
  "age": 27,
  "address": {
    "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "postalCode": "10021-3100"
  },
  "phoneNumbers": [
    {
      "type": "home",
      "number": "212 555-1234"
    },
    {
      "type": "office",
      "number": "646 555-4567"
    }
  ],
  "children": [],
  "spouse": null
}

we will concentrate on the phoneNumbers array : all you need to do is use a for loop but first this is the code i use to read data from any array:

         cJSON *root = cJSON_Parse((char*)buf);

	cJSON *phoneNumbers = cJSON_GetObjectItemCaseSensitive(root, "phoneNumbers");

	int temp_n = cJSON_GetArraySize(phoneNumbers);
		for (int i =0; i<temp_n; i++)
		{

			cJSON *temp1 = cJSON_GetArrayItem(phoneNumbers, i);

			cJSON *type = cJSON_GetObjectItemCaseSensitive(temp1, "type");
			fprintf(stderr,"cronTemplate: %s\n", cJSON_Print(type));

			cJSON *number = cJSON_GetObjectItemCaseSensitive(temp1, "number");
			fprintf(stderr,"operation: %s\n", cJSON_Print(number));

		}

hope this helps anyone!