@iota/extract-json v1.0.0-beta.30

@iota/extract-json

Extracts JSON encoded messages from signature message fragments.

Installation

Install using npm:

npm install @iota/extract-json

or using yarn:

yarn add @iota/extract-json

API Reference

• extract-json

  • .extractJson(bundle)

extract-json.extractJson(bundle)

Summary: Extracts JSON from transactions.
Throws:

• errors.INVALID_BUNDLE : Make sure that the bundle argument is an array of transaction trytes.
• errors.INVALID_JSON : Make sure that the transactions' signatureMessageFragment fields contain valid JSON.

This method takes the signatureMessageFragment fields of all the given transaction trytes, and tries to extract any JSON data that's in them.

The following forms of JSON-encoded values are supported:

• "{ \"message\": \"hello\" }"
• "[1, 2, 3]"
• "true", "false" & "null"
• "\"hello\""
• 123

Related methods

To get a bundle's transaction trytes from the Tangle, use the getBundle() method.

Returns: string | number | null - The JSON data in the transactions
Example

try {
  const json = JSON.parse(extractJson(bundle))
} catch (error) {
  console.log(error);
}