Re: Parsing JSON

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

David,

I saw that; the documentation for the json.lua library had not been updated
since we changed its tests to those that use unittest.lua, so I removed it.
Instead, you can use the nsedebug.tostr [1] function to see the structure
that was parsed.

Dan

[1] https://nmap.org/nsedoc/lib/nsedebug.html#tostr

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:23 PM, David Muscut <davidmuscut () gmail com> wrote:

> Thanks Dan. A follow up question, the json.lua documentation says "If you
> want to parse JSON, you can test it by pasting sample JSON into the TESTS
> table and run the test method". Can you show an example of how you run "the
> test method"?
>
> thanks,
>
> - D
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > David,
> >
> > I just missed you in IRC. I don't see any problem with parsing this with
> > json.lua. To get the rendered title, I would use this:
> >
> > local status, parsed = json.parse('[{"id":1,...')
> > title = parsed[1].title.rendered
> >
> > Note that your data is wrapped in a single-element array, and Lua uses
> > 1-indexed tables as arrays. So the first element is index 1, and "title" is
> > a key in the object at that index.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:21 AM, David Muscut <davidmuscut () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Can someone point me to a code example of how I can parse out the 'id'
> > > and 'title' values using the Nmap json.lua library for the following code:
> > >
> > > [{"id":1,"date":"2017-02-05T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-02-05T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:02:28","slug":"hello-world","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/05\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello
> > >  world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start 
> > > writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit 
> > > or delete it, then start 
> > > writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp2\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > >
> > > -D
> > >
> > >
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