How to get first key pair element of JSON object without knowing key and deleting it in node red

Question

I am writing a function node in node-red that is taking in a JSON object with arbitrary key val pairs:

{ 30000c690b61: "m8Jp_M7Lc0",
  30000c290bdc65: "S3qg3Rkl8Y", 
  30000c290bdf1c: "KsLpfVrR4W", 
  30000c290be5d0: "oXasuCWV_q", 
  30000c29e618: "6Q67v-gJkS" … }

I would like to access the first key pair element in this object, store it, and then delete it. I have tried multiple things, but since it is node-red, it seems to behave different

Enfleurage

Possible duplicate of How to remove a property from a JavaScript object? – Preengage

It might be helpful to show one of the things you've tried, and how the behavior differed between node-red and another JS environment. – Marismarisa

it is not a duplicate, since that link you posted answers about a key that is known - I would just like to remove the first element ( I cant just do delete myObject[30000c690b61 ]; since the key always changes... – Enfleurage

Ive tried getting the first element using [0], or doing a for loop to get the first key and val, but both didnt work – Enfleurage

Answer 1

var firstKey = Object.keys(myObject)[0];
delete myObject[firstKey ];

Urchin

Answer 2

Getting the "first" element of a JSON object expression is difficult, since JSON objects are not intended to be ordered collections. They are "ordered" in JSON only because they must have a string serialization that is an ordered sequence of characters, but two JSON object expressions with differently-ordered properties are meant to convey identical semantics.

If you are willing to trust your JavaScript environment to preserve the ordering of keys when iterating (which is not an assumption defined in the ECMAScript spec, but may be true in your environment's implementation), you can do:

var myObj = JSON.parse("{ ... }");
var firstKey = Object.keys(myObj)[0];
delete myObj[firstKey];

If you do not want to make such an unsafe assumption, you need to read the JSON string and manually determine the key name between the first set of quotation marks. This involves some effort, because you must also handle escaped quotation marks that may appear within the key name itself.

Marismarisa

thank you. and yes, i will have to look into that since i do need to ensure that ordering is ensured. – Enfleurage

Answer 3

const defaultvalue =yourObject[Object.keys(yourObject).at(0)]

To get first element from JSON Object

Jakob

Answer 4

The Following Code will get First element key pair from the JSON Object and Delete It.

var resultJSON = '{ "30000c690b61": "m8Jp_M7Lc0",
  "30000c290bdc65": "S3qg3Rkl8Y", 
  "30000c290bdf1c": "KsLpfVrR4W", 
  "30000c290be5d0": "oXasuCWV_q", 
  "30000c29e618": "6Q67v-gJkS"}';
var result = $.parseJSON(resultJSON);
$.each(result, function(k, v) {
  //display the key and value pair
  alert(k + ' is ' + v);
  //For Delete the first key pair
   delete result['k'];
  exit;
});

Grate

Answer 5

first_key = next(iter(json))
first_value = json[first_key]

Hatty

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