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JSON Syntax, what is this? – Ebay API

I understand concepts of JSON ok, but after starting to use ebay’s api, I came across a notation which I’ve not seen before, and was wondering if anyone could explain what’s going on with it?

{
"findItemsByKeywordsResponse": [
    {
        "ack": [
            "Success" 
        ],
        "version": [
            "1.5.0" 
        ],
        "timestamp": [
            "2010-06-16T08:42:21.468Z" 
        ],
        "searchResult": [
            {
                "@count": "0" 
            } 
        ],
        "paginationOutput": [
            {
                "pageNumber": [
                    "0" 
                ],
                "entriesPerPage": [
                    "10" 
                ],
                "totalPages": [
                    "0" 
                ],
                "totalEntries": [
                    "0" 
                ] 
            } 
        ] 
    } 
]

}

What’s the “@count” thing? I noticed when I reference it in chrome, it throws an error:

chrome error http://www.oth4.com/clip.jpg

But in Firefox not. JSON Lint reports it’s valid, as I’d expect… 😉

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Answers


  1. 0

    It is a property name that starts with an @ character. That is all.

    Use square bracket notation to access properties containing characters that you can’t use in dot notation.

    i.e. 

    currentPrice[0]['@currencyId']
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  2. 0

    Try:

    var currency = item.sellingStatus[0].currentPrice[0]["@currencyId"];

    There’s no requirement that Javascript array keys be valid Javascript identifiers.

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  3. 0

    In addition to the answers here, @ usually appears in JSON property names when the JSON is created from XML. The @ represents an XML attribute so that it can be distinguished from the child elements of that XML node in it’s new JSON form. For instance, that particular item in XML might look like this:

        <searchResult count="0">
    </searchResult>

    As already suggested, you can access the property using square bracket notation.

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  4. 0

    In PHP, if you want to access a property which name starts with an invalid character you have to use {'property_name'}. So if you want to access @count from your specific JSON example you should try this:

    $json_decoded = json_decode($json_var);
$count = $json_decoded->findItemsByKeywordsResponse[0]->searchResult[0]->{'@count'};

    json_decode() function was used to convert the JSON into an PHP object.

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