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[Araz Abishov <araz.abishov.gsoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knut,

What are you using for parsing JSON (which library)?

In general you should never rely on order of items in JSON. It is better to
interpret it as a "map" rather than "list".

Best Regards,
Araz

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Below is a patient tracked entity instance
>
>
>
> In order  to get a first name or a last name from this attribute list, we
> would have to loop through all the attributes until we find an attribute
> that has the displayName "firstName", as all the attribute seem to be in
> random order for each patient. That is inefficient and clunky. Is there a
> way to get the data in a format that could be read by javascript more
> easily?
>
>
>
> {
>          "lastUpdated":"2014-03-28 12:33:47.354",
>          "trackedEntity":"G0PlBqu2Boe",
>          "created":"2014-03-26 15:46:02.45",
>          "orgUnit":"DiszpKrYNg8",
>          "trackedEntityInstance":"JRm9etA1dG1",
>          "relationships":[
>
>          ],
>          "attributes":[
>             {
>                "code":"MMD_PER_NAM",
>                "displayName":"First name",
>                "valueType":"TEXT",
>                "attribute":"w75KJ2mc4zz",
>                "value":"Kedija"
>             },
>             {
>                "displayName":"Gender",
>                "valueType":"TEXT",
>                "attribute":"cejWyOfXge6",
>                "value":"Female"
>             },
>
> ...
>          ]
>       },
>
>
>
> I tried something like the below, but that doesn't seem to work. What am I
> missing?
>
>
>
> https://play.dhis2.org/demo/api/trackedEntityInstances/PQfMcpmXeFE.json?fields=attributes[displayName]&filter=attributes[displayName]:eq:Gender
>
>
>
>
>
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