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Is there a way to get the path of a value? #676

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patrick-rotsaert opened this issue Aug 4, 2017 · 2 comments
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Is there a way to get the path of a value? #676

patrick-rotsaert opened this issue Aug 4, 2017 · 2 comments
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While traversing the json structure I'd like to fetch the path of a certain value, something like "/answer/everything".
Is this possible?
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nlohmann commented Aug 8, 2017

This is currently not possible. Unfortunately, a JSON value has no "knowledge" of its parent, so I am currently not aware of a nice solution.

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Okay, thanks for answering.

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