I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around some JSON stuff. Namely, I'm trying to retrieve a string from a json response received from the google translate api i'm querying.
var translator = function () {
for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++)
{
//Construct URI
var source =
'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?' +
'key=MY-API-KEY-REMOVED-ON-PURPOSE&' +
'source=en&' +
'target=fr&' +
'q=' +
result[i][1]; //looping over an array, no problem there
//Receive response from server
var to_Translate =new XMLHttpRequest();
to_Translate.open("GET",source,false);
to_Translate.send();
var translated = to_Translate.responseText;
JSON.parse(translated);
translated = translated.data.translations[0].translatedText;
console.log(translated);
}
};
translator();
Where
console.log(translated);
yields
{
"data": {
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": "some stuff that's been translated"
}
]
}
}
My question is: how can i access the value of translatedText? I've tried:
translated.data.translations[0].translatedText;
But it doesn't seem to work. When I console.log this i get
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'translations' of undefined
translator
(anonymous function)
Let me know what you guys think!