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Hi everyone,
I am new to JSON and Postman. I’m trying to do something very simple.

I have a GET request which will get a JSON response like the one below.

In the example below from inside of the data array, I want to get the value of benefitGeneralID but only if the value matches a specific uniqueCode ,eg- name123code

How can I do it? Thanks in advance

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  • {
    “data”: [
    {
    “setUp”: 5,
    “warrantsLimitation”: true,
    “noOfWarrants”: null,
    “warrantsGrossValue”: null,
    “adminFee”: 3.00,
    “maximumThresholdAmount”: 1000.00,
    “maximumPercentage”: 100.00,
    “impactBudget”: null,
    “impactNetSalary”: null,
    “impactBIK”: null,
    “impactSocSec”: null,
    “benefitGeneralId”: “d928ds4b2d-fsd357--955d-1ef07303c70b",
    “benefitId”: "1a372419-    -4a16-abd9-75a9da74b9e7”,
    “benefitType”: 22,
    “name”: “Warrant 3”,
    “nameInDutch”: “Warrant 3”,
    “nameInFrench”: “Warrant 3”,
    “startDate”: “2018-10-01T00:00:00.000”,
    “endDate”: “2022-02-03T00:00:00.000”,
    “uniqueCode”: “abcde”
    },

{
“setUp”: 3,
“warrantsLimitation”: null,
“noOfWarrants”: 10,
“warrantsGrossValue”: 100.00,
“adminFee”: 3.00,
“maximumThresholdAmount”: 1000.00,
“maximumPercentage”: 100.00,
“impactBudget”: null,
“impactNetSalary”: null,
“impactBIK”: 100.00,
“impactSocSec”: 0.00,
“benefitGeneralId”: “23bb27c6-9a1e-46f5-8501-567da25fb5e5”,
“benefitId”: “1a372419-43a6-4a16-abd9-75a9da74b9e7”,
“benefitType”: 22,
“name”: “name123”,
“nameInDutch”: “name123”,
“nameInFrench”: “name123”,
“startDate”: “2018-10-01T00:00:00.000”,
“endDate”: “2022-02-05T00:00:00.000”,
“uniqueCode”: “name123code”
},
{
“setUp”: 4,
“warrantsLimitation”: true,
“noOfWarrants”: null,
“warrantsGrossValue”: 1000.00,
“adminFee”: 3.00,
“maximumThresholdAmount”: 10000000.00,
“maximumPercentage”: null,
“impactBudget”: null,
“impactNetSalary”: null,
“impactBIK”: null,
“impactSocSec”: null,
“benefitGeneralId”: “3e3bb656-dbb2--a98c-c36d44b70207",
“benefitId”: "1a372419--4a16-****-75a9da74b9e7”,
“benefitType”: 22,
“name”: “Free choice (amount)”,
“nameInDutch”: “name1234code”,
“nameInFrench”: “name1234code”,
“startDate”: “2021-08-30T06:30:00.000”,
“endDate”: “2021-09-30T06:30:00.000”,
“uniqueCode”: name1234code"
},

],
“total”: 2,
“aggregateResults”: null,
“errors”: null
}

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Hey @mission-saganist-751!

So, to get the benefitGeneralID from the response, we simply loop through the data, test for the required condition and save the required value,

One way to do this is:

//Saving the response from the GET request
var response=pm.response.json();
//Fetching the data array and storing it
var data=response.data, Ids=[];   //Ids to store benefitGeneralID

//looping through each data item
_.each(data, (item)=>{

    //Required condition
    if(item.uniqueCode==="name123code")
       Ids.push(item.benefitGeneralId);
})

console.log(Ids);

Good luck!

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Thanks for the code :slight_smile:

really appreciate it.

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