Javascript loop through object array?

Question

I am trying to loop through the following:

{
    "messages": [{
        "msgFrom": "13223821242",
        "msgBody": "Hi there"
    }, {
        "msgFrom": "Bill",
        "msgBody": "Hello!"
    }]
}

I want to retrieve msgFrom and msgBody

I've tried:

        for (var key in data) {
           var obj = data[key];
           for (var prop in obj) {
              if(obj.hasOwnProperty(prop)){
                console.log(prop + " = " + obj[prop]);
              }
           }
        }

But the console log prints [Object]

Any ideas what im doing wrong?

Answer 1

It appears you may just have missed the "messages" property in the data, so the loop is likely iterating the root Object rather than the Array:

for (var key in data.messages) {
    var obj = data.messages[key];
    // ...
}

Unless data was set to messages before the given snippet.

Though, you should consider changing that to a normal for loop for the Array:

for (var i = 0, l = data.messages.length; i < l; i++) {
    var obj = data.messages[i];
    // ...
}