Traverse all the Nodes of a JSON Object Tree with JavaScript

If you think jQuery is kind of overkill for such a primitive task, you could do something like that:

//your object
var o = { 
    foo:"bar",
    arr:[1,2,3],
    subo: {
        foo2:"bar2"
    }
};

//called with every property and its value
function process(key,value) {
    console.log(key + " : "+value);
}

function traverse(o,func) {
    for (var i in o) {
        func.apply(this,[i,o[i]]);  
        if (o[i] !== null && typeof(o[i])=="object") {
            //going one step down in the object tree!!
            traverse(o[i],func);
        }
    }
}

//that's all... no magic, no bloated framework
traverse(o,process);

A JSON object is simply a Javascript object. That's actually what JSON stands for: JavaScript Object Notation. So you'd traverse a JSON object however you'd choose to "traverse" a Javascript object in general.

In ES2017 you would do:

Object.entries(jsonObj).forEach(([key, value]) => {
    // do something with key and val
});

You can always write a function to recursively descend into the object:

function traverse(jsonObj) {
    if( jsonObj !== null && typeof jsonObj == "object" ) {
        Object.entries(jsonObj).forEach(([key, value]) => {
            // key is either an array index or object key
            traverse(value);
        });
    }
    else {
        // jsonObj is a number or string
    }
}

This should be a good starting point. I highly recommend using modern javascript methods for such things, since they make writing such code much easier.

Depends on what you want to do. Here's an example of traversing a JavaScript object tree, printing keys and values as it goes:

function js_traverse(o) {
    var type = typeof o 
    if (type == "object") {
        for (var key in o) {
            print("key: ", key)
            js_traverse(o[key])
        }
    } else {
        print(o)
    }
}

js> foobar = {foo: "bar", baz: "quux", zot: [1, 2, 3, {some: "hash"}]}
[object Object]
js> js_traverse(foobar)                 
key:  foo
bar
key:  baz
quux
key:  zot
key:  0
1
key:  1
2
key:  2
3
key:  3
key:  some
hash

Most Javascript engines do not optimize tail recursion (this might not be an issue if your JSON isn't deeply nested), but I usually err on the side of caution and do iteration instead, e.g.

function traverse(o, fn) {
    const stack = [o]

    while (stack.length) {
        const obj = stack.shift()

        Object.keys(obj).forEach((key) => {
            fn(key, obj[key], obj)
            if (obj[key] instanceof Object) {
                stack.unshift(obj[key])
                return
            }
        })
    }
}

const o = {
    name: 'Max',
    legal: false,
    other: {
        name: 'Maxwell',
        nested: {
            legal: true
        }
    }
}

const fx = (key, value, obj) => console.log(key, value)
traverse(o, fx)

We use object-scan for many data processing tasks. It's powerful once you wrap your head around it. Here is how you could do basic traversal

// const objectScan = require('object-scan');

const obj = { foo: 'bar', arr: [1, 2, 3], subo: { foo2: 'bar2' } };

objectScan(['**'], {
  reverse: false,
  filterFn: ({ key, value }) => {
    console.log(key, value);
  }
})(obj);
// => [ 'foo' ] bar
// => [ 'arr', 0 ] 1
// => [ 'arr', 1 ] 2
// => [ 'arr', 2 ] 3
// => [ 'arr' ] [ 1, 2, 3 ]
// => [ 'subo', 'foo2' ] bar2
// => [ 'subo' ] { foo2: 'bar2' }

.as-console-wrapper {max-height: 100% !important; top: 0}

<script src="https://bundle.run/object-scan@13.8.0"></script>

Disclaimer: I'm the author of object-scan

This Will read All Nodes to a map.

function readJsonFile() {
    let jsonString = getValueById("testDataContent");
    let jsonObj = JSON.parse(jsonString);
    let jsonElements = [];
    jsonElements = traverse(jsonObj, jsonElements);
    console.log(jsonElements)
}

function traverse(jsonObj, jsonElements) {
    if (jsonObj !== null && typeof jsonObj == "object") {
        Object.entries(jsonObj).forEach(([key, value]) => {
            
            if (typeof value == "object") {
                var obj = [];
                let map = new Map();
                map.set(key, traverse(value, obj))
                jsonElements.push(map);
            } else {
                var obj = [];
                obj.key = key;
                obj.value = value;
                jsonElements.push(obj);
            }
        });
    } else {

    }
    return jsonElements;
}