iterate and retrieve nested object in JSON using rapidjson

Question

I am parsing a JSON structure which is similar as follows

{
    "item1" : "value1"
    "item2" : "value2"
    // ...
    "itemn" : {
        "outernestedItem1" : {
            "innerNestedItem1" : "valuen1"
            "innerNestedItem2" : "valuen2"
        }
        // ....
        "outernestedItemn" : {
            "innerNestedItem1" : "valuen1"
            "innerNestedItem2" : "valuen2"
        }
    }
}

The number of outer nested items is not fixed, so I was iterating using iterator from rapidjson, inner-nested objects variables are fixed, so I can get access to them using [].

const rapidjson::Value& itemn = document["itemn"];
for (rapidjson::Value::ConstMemberIterator itr = itemn.MemberBegin();
itr != itemn.MemberEnd(); ++itr)
{
    rapidjson::StringBuffer sb;
    rapidjson::Writer<rapidjson::StringBuffer> writer( sb );
    itr->value.Accept(writer);

    std::cout << sb["innerNestedItem1"].GetString();
    std::cout << sb["innerNestedItem2"].GetString();
}

but [] is not allowed with sb(string buffer), any idea how can I do this?

Edit1: I did it in very inefficient way, but just sharing the solution, so it might help someone to come up with efficient solution.

const rapidjson::Value& itemn = document["itemn"];
for (rapidjson::Value::ConstMemberIterator itr = itemn.MemberBegin();
itr != itemn.MemberEnd(); ++itr)
{
    rapidjson::StringBuffer sb;
    rapidjson::Writer<rapidjson::StringBuffer> writer( sb );
    itr->value.Accept(writer);

    //changed from here onwards
    rapidjson::Document for_outer_nested_item;
    std::string temp = sb.GetString();
    char buffer2[100000];
    strcpy_s(buffer2, temp.c_str());
    for_outer_nested_item.ParseInsitu(buffer2);
    std::cout << executive_command["innerNestedItem1"].GetString() << std::endl;
    std::cout << executive_command["innerNestedItem2"].GetString() << std::endl;
}

Answer 1

First, let me provide credit to MiloYip at this link

Second-- here's what I did for my project:

rapidjson::Document document;
// document holds a json document retrieved from a http GET request
// I did not include all of that in this example.  I am only showing
// the part of iterating through a nested object and retrieving members.

std::vector<std::string> symbols;
// holds the values I retrieve from the json document

if (document.Parse<0>( symbol.c_str() ).HasParseError() )
    Log() << "ERROR: encountered a JSON parsing error" << std::endl;
else {
    // Get the nested object that contains the elements I want.
    // In my case, the nested object in my json document was results
    // and the values I was after were identified as "t"
    rapidjson::Value& results = document["results"];
    assert(results.IsArray());
    for (rapidjson::SizeType i = 0; i < results.Size(); i++) {
        // Store the value of the element in a vector.
        symbols.emplace_back(results[i]["t"].GetString());
}                            

I think this is a pretty clean/efficient approach.