Why it has "Object" rather than some value?

[Mnemosynel]

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Description

Input

const data = `
<items>
  <item>
    <name>Item 1</name>
    <price>10.99</price>
  </item>
  <item>
    <name>Item 2</name>
    <price>19.99</price>
  </item>
</items>
`;

Code

function parseOriginFragmentDetail(data: string): any {
  const options = {
    ignoreAttributes: true,
    ignoreNameSpace: true,
    parseAttributeValue: false,
    parseNodeValue: true,
    allowBooleanAttributes: true
  };

  const parser = new XMLParser(options);
  const jsonObj = parser.parse(data);

  return jsonObj;
}
let jsonData1 = parseOriginFragmentDetail(data);
console.log(jsonData1);
console.log("***************");

Output

{ items: { item: [ [Object], [Object] ] } }

---

expected data

 {
    "items": {
        "item": [
            {
                "name": "Item 1",
                "price": 10.99
            },
            {
                "name": "Item 2",
                "price": 19.99
            }
        ]
    }
}

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[cecia234]

Hi! I think that's how console.log() works when printing an array of objects, when the array itself is contained in a nested object.
For example, if you try to print a similar object with this script:

const aaa = {
    a:{
        b: [ { d: 1 }, { e: 3 } ]
    }
}
console.log(aaa);

You obtain

{ a: { b: [ [Object], [Object] ] } }

If you need the object parsed as string you can use JSON.stringify().
With your script it should look something like this:

const data = `
<items>
  <item>
    <name>Item 1</name>
    <price>10.99</price>
  </item>
  <item>
    <name>Item 2</name>
    <price>19.99</price>
  </item>
</items>
`;

function parseOriginFragmentDetail(data: string): any {
  const options = {
    ignoreAttributes: true,
    ignoreNameSpace: true,
    parseAttributeValue: false,
    parseNodeValue: true,
    allowBooleanAttributes: true
  };

  const parser = new XMLParser(options);
  const jsonObj = parser.parse(data);

  return jsonObj;
}
let jsonData1 = parseOriginFragmentDetail(data);
console.log(JSON.stringify(jsonData1));
console.log("***************");

You should see this in the console

{"items":{"item":[{"name":"Item 1","price":10.99},{"name":"Item 2","price":19.99}]}}
***************

[Mnemosynel]

It works! Thanks!