How to merge two QJsonObjects in Qt?

QJsonObject obj3(obj1);
for (auto it = obj2.constBegin(); it != obj2.constEnd(); it++) {
    obj3.insert(it.key(), it.value());
}

Solution

I prefer to avoid explicit loops, so my solution would be to use a convertion to and from QVariantMap, aka QMap<QString, QVariant>:

1. Use QJsonObject::toVariantMap to convert all JSON objects to QVariantMap

2. Use QMap::insert to insert all maps into one

3. Use QJsonObject::fromVariantMap to convert the resulting map back to JSON object

Note: The proposed solution would work best if all JSON objects contain unique keys, because the documentation states:

If map contains multiple entries with the same key then the final value of the key is undefined.

Example

Here is a simple example I have prepared for you to demonstrate how the proposed solution could be implemented:

QJsonObject json1{{"foo_key", "foo_value"}};
QJsonObject json2{{"moo_key", "moo_value"}, {"boo_key", "boo_value"}};
QVariantMap map = json1.toVariantMap();

map.insert(json2.toVariantMap());

qDebug() << QJsonObject::fromVariantMap(map);

Result

This example produces the following result:

QJsonObject({"boo_key":"boo_value","foo_key":"foo_value","moo_key":"moo_value"})

Extended version, which also merges objects of same name and adds array elements as well (if present with same name in both objects):

void mergeJson(QJsonObject& src, const QJsonObject& other)
{
    for(auto it = other.constBegin(); it != other.constEnd(); ++it)
    {
        if(src.contains(it.key()))
        {
            if(src.value(it.key()).isObject() && other.value(it.key()).isObject())
            {
                QJsonObject one(src.value(it.key()).toObject());
                QJsonObject two(other.value(it.key()).toObject());

                mergeJson(one, two);
                src[it.key()] = one;
            }
            else if(src.value(it.key()).isArray() && other.value(it.key()).isArray())
            {
                QJsonArray arr = other.value(it.key()).toArray();
                QJsonArray srcArr = src.value(it.key()).toArray();
                for(int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++)
                    srcArr.append(arr[i]);
                src[it.key()] = srcArr;
            }
        }
        else
            src[it.key()] = it.value();
    }
}

If src and other have a field with the same name (except arrays and objects, see top), src will be used.

src:

{
   "arr":[
      {
         "fieldOne":"dqwd",
         "fieldTwo":"dqwd2"
      },
      {
         "fieldOne":"dqwd",
         "fieldTwo":"dqwd2"
      },
      {
         "fieldOne":"dqwd",
         "fieldTwo":"dqwd2"
      }
   ],
   "fieldOne":"dqwd",
   "fieldTwo":"dqwd2",
   "two":{
      "fieldOne":"dwqwfw",
      "fieldTwo":"grew",
      "fregtegergwedffe":{
         "sdqqwd":"wdqfrg"
      }
   }
}

other:

{
   "arr":[
      {
         "fieldOne":"dwqwfw",
         "fieldTwo":"kjhgf",
         "qwdqwd":"grew"
      }
   ],
   "fieldOne":"rfgwef",
   "grege":"gfewrfew",
   "grwefege":"fewfgrew",
   "two":{
      "fieldOne":"dwqwfw",
      "fieldTwo":"kjhgf",
      "qwdqwd":"grew"
   }
}

merged/src after call:

{
   "arr":[
      {
         "fieldOne":"dqwd",
         "fieldTwo":"dqwd2"
      },
      {
         "fieldOne":"dqwd",
         "fieldTwo":"dqwd2"
      },
      {
         "fieldOne":"dqwd",
         "fieldTwo":"dqwd2"
      },
      {
         "fieldOne":"dwqwfw",
         "fieldTwo":"kjhgf",
         "qwdqwd":"grew"
      }
   ],
   "fieldOne":"dqwd",
   "fieldTwo":"dqwd2",
   "grege":"gfewrfew",
   "grwefege":"fewfgrew",
   "two":{
      "fieldOne":"dwqwfw",
      "fieldTwo":"grew",
      "fregtegergwedffe":{
         "sdqqwd":"wdqfrg"
      },
      "qwdqwd":"grew"
   }
}

You can iterate over all jsons that you need to merge and then over their elements and insert them into the new json:

  QJsonObject obj1({{"bla1", "lab1"}});
  QJsonObject obj2({{"bla2", "lab2"}});
  QJsonObject obj34({{"bla3", "lab3"}, {"bla4", "lab4"}});
  QJsonObject result;
  for (const auto& json : {obj1, obj2, obj34})
  {
    for (auto it = json.begin(); it != json.end(); it++)
    {
      result.insert(it.key(), it.value());
    }
  }
  for (auto it = result.begin(); it != result.end(); it++)
  {
    qDebug() << it.key() << ": " << it.value();
  }

Probably not the most efficient, though.