# Multiple Nested JSON Parse

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-nested-json-parse/154559>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-nested-json-parse/154559 "2018-10-30T05:15:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anand\_Upadhyay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anand_upadhyay/32/37080_2.png) [@Anand\_Upadhyay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anand_Upadhyay)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-nested-json-parse/154559/1 "2018-10-30T05:15:03Z")

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Hi... i'm having issue with parsing of multiple nested JSON can any1 help..  
I just dont want identify key field..

**JSON Format**

{  
"billingDetails": {  
"POSBILL": [  
{  
"BillId": 49,  
"BillNo": "POS/16Oct18",  
"BillDate": "2018-10-12T17:29:03.053",  
"TerminalId": "2",  
"customerId": "",  
"cardNo": "",  
"StockPointId": "1",  
"DiscountId": "",  
"MRPAmt": "2000.00",  
"BasicAmt": "2000.00",  
"PromoAmt": "0",  
"SaleAmt": "2000.00",  
"ReturnAmt": "0",  
"GrossAmt": "2000.00",  
"LPDiscountAmt": "0",  
"discountBenefitId": "",  
"pointBenefit": "",  
"DiscountAmt": "0.00",  
"NetAmt": "2000.00",  
"ChargeAmt": "0",  
"NetPayable": "2000",  
"RoundOff": "0",  
"ExTaxAmt": "0",  
"PromoCode": "",  
"PromoBenefit": "",  
"BillGUID": "3-2-121018172710",  
"MDiscountAmt": "0",  
"EMRREDCouponRef": "",  
"CouponCode": ""  
}  
],  
"POSBillItems": [  
{  
"POSBillItemId": 170,  
"ItemId": "T1036",  
"BarCode": "1",  
"ItemName": "SKIRT",  
"Division": "Gents",  
"Section": "Upper",  
"Department": "Shirt",  
"Article": "GENTS-UPPER-SHIRT",  
"Qty": 1,  
"RtQty": 0,  
"MRP": 1000,  
"RSP": 1000,  
"ESP": 1000,  
"MRPAmt": 1000,  
"BasicAmt": 1000,  
"PromoAmt": 0,  
"GrossAmt": 1000,  
"IDiscountDisplay": null,  
"IDiscountAmt": 0,  
"SalePrice": 1000,  
"IGrossAmt": 1000,  
"MDiscountAmt": 0,  
"DiscountAmt": 0,  
"NetAmt": 1000,  
"TaxPercent": 5,  
"TaxAmt": 47.62,  
"TaxableAmt": 952.38,  
"IDiscountFactor": 0,  
"MDiscountFactor": 0,  
"PromoCode": null,  
"PromoDiscountFactor": null,  
"RefPOSBillItemId": null,  
"LPDiscountBenefit": null,  
"LPPointBenefit": null,  
"MGrossAmt": 1000,  
"LPDiscountAmt": null,  
"LPAmountSpendFactor": null,  
"LPPointEarnedFactor": null,  
"LPPointsCalculated": 0,  
"LPDiscountFactor": null,  
"RefBillNo": null  
},  
{  
"POSBillItemId": 171,  
"ItemId": "T1036",  
"BarCode": "1",  
"ItemName": "SKIRT",  
"Division": "Gents",  
"Section": "Upper",  
"Department": "Shirt",  
"Article": "GENTS-UPPER-SHIRT",  
"Qty": 1,  
"RtQty": 0,  
"MRP": 1000,  
"RSP": 1000,  
"ESP": 1000,  
"MRPAmt": 1000,  
"BasicAmt": 1000,  
"PromoAmt": 0,  
"GrossAmt": 1000,  
"IDiscountDisplay": null,  
"IDiscountAmt": 0,  
"SalePrice": 1000,  
"IGrossAmt": 1000,  
"MDiscountAmt": 0,  
"DiscountAmt": 0,  
"NetAmt": 1000,  
"TaxPercent": 5,  
"TaxAmt": 47.62,  
"TaxableAmt": 952.38,  
"IDiscountFactor": 0,  
"MDiscountFactor": 0,  
"PromoCode": null,  
"PromoDiscountFactor": null,  
"RefPOSBillItemId": null,  
"LPDiscountBenefit": null,  
"LPPointBenefit": null,  
"MGrossAmt": 1000,  
"LPDiscountAmt": null,  
"LPAmountSpendFactor": null,  
"LPPointEarnedFactor": null,  
"LPPointsCalculated": 0,  
"LPDiscountFactor": null,  
"RefBillNo": null  
}  
],  
"POSBillMOP": [  
{  
"POSBillMOPId": 93,  
"MOPId": "112",  
"MOPName": "Cash",  
"MOPType": "CSH",  
"CurrencyId": "1",  
"BaseTender": 2000,  
"BaseBalance": 0,  
"BaseAmt": 2000,  
"Tender": 2000,  
"CCNo": null  
}  
],  
"POSCustomer": []  
},  
"membershipId": null,  
"BillEvent": "NEW",  
"event": "addTransaction",  
"apiTypeResolver": "api",  
"providerCode": "LPCAP",  
"metadata": {  
"enterpriseMetadata": {  
"enterpriseId": "5a3229d5ccbc37c3449a4890",  
"cluster": "api.capillary.co.in",  
"apiversion": "v1.1",  
"pointredemptionview\_otpvalidation": "0",  
"couponredemptionview\_otpvalidation": "0"  
},  
"storeMetadata": {  
"password": "and123",  
"username": "and.ho1",  
"storeCode": "3"  
},  
"requestMetadata": {  
"requestUid": "c7bdad7e-3361-41a3-8ff6-d9db93b414b2",  
"mqReferenceNo": "8c7c54e9-f428-4761-9c65-f6bb86f5df3a"  
}  
}  
}

**My conf file...**

input {  
s3 {  
access\_key\_id =\> ""  
secret\_access\_key =\> ""  
region =\> ""  
bucket =\> ""  
interval =\> 30  
additional\_settings =\> {  
force\_path\_style =\> true  
follow\_redirects =\> false  
}  
codec =\> multiline {  
pattern =\> "^\s"  
what =\> "previous"  
}  
}  
}  
filter {  
grok {  
match =\> {"message" =\> "%{TIME:Time}%{SPACE}[%{DATA:thread}]%{SPACE}%{LOGLEVEL:log-level}%{SPACE}%{JAVACLASS:log-class}%{SPACE}-%{SPACE}%{DATA:requestType}%{SPACE}{%{QS:id}:%{NUMBER:id},(?:._):%{QS:requestId},(?:._):%{QS:messageReferenceNo},(?:._):%{QS:retailModule},(?:._):%{QS:event},(?:._):%{QS:enterpriseId},(?:._):%{QS:storeId},(?:.\*):%{QS:requestData},%{QS:requestTime}:%{NUMBER:requestTime},%{QS:auditAction}:%{NUMBER:auditAction}}"}

```
  match => {"message" => "%{TIME:Time}%{SPACE}\[%{DATA:thread}]%{SPACE}%{LOGLEVEL:log-level}%{SPACE}%{JAVACLASS:log-class}%{SPACE}-%{SPACE}%{GREEDYDATA:details}"}
}

```

}  
filter {  
mutate {  
gsub =\> ["requestData", '\"', '"']  
}  
}  
filter {  
json {  
source =\> "requestData"  
}  
}  
output {  
elasticsearch {  
hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]  
index =\> "s3-bucket"  
}  
stdout {  
codec =\> rubydebug  
}  
}

Please help...

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**Author:** ![Anand\_Upadhyay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anand_upadhyay/32/37080_2.png) [@Anand\_Upadhyay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anand_Upadhyay)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-nested-json-parse/154559/2 "2018-10-30T05:15:56Z")

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**i've used JSON filter but getting this error**

Error parsing json {:source=\>"requestData", :raw=\>""{"billingDetails":{"POSBILL":[{"BillId":49,"BillNo":"POS/16Oct18","BillDate":"2018-10-12T17:29:03.053","TerminalId":"2","customerId":"","cardNo":"","StockPointId":"1","DiscountId":"","MRPAmt":"2000.00","BasicAmt":"2000.00","PromoAmt":"0","SaleAmt":"2000.00","ReturnAmt":"0","GrossAmt":"2000.00","LPDiscountAmt":"0","discountBenefitId":"","pointBenefit":"","DiscountAmt":"0.00","NetAmt":"2000.00","ChargeAmt":"0","NetPayable":"2000","RoundOff":"0","ExTaxAmt":"0","PromoCode":"","PromoBenefit":"","BillGUID":"3-2-121018172710","MDiscountAmt":"0","EMRREDCouponRef":"","CouponCode":""}],"POSBillItems":[{"POSBillItemId":170,"ItemId":"T1036","BarCode":"1","ItemName":"SKIRT","Division":"Gents","Section":"Upper","Department":"Shirt","Article":"GENTS-UPPER-SHIRT","Qty":1.0,"RtQty":0.0,"MRP":1000.0,"RSP":1000.0,"ESP":1000.0,"MRPAmt":1000.0,"BasicAmt":1000.0,"PromoAmt":0.0,"GrossAmt":1000.0,"IDiscountDisplay":null,"IDiscountAmt":0.0,"SalePrice":1000.0,"IGrossAmt":1000.0,"MDiscountAmt":0.0,"DiscountAmt":0.0,"NetAmt":1000.0,"TaxPercent":5.0,"TaxAmt":47.62,"TaxableAmt":952.38,"IDiscountFactor":0.0,"MDiscountFactor":0.0,"PromoCode":null,"PromoDiscountFactor":null,"RefPOSBillItemId":null,"LPDiscountBenefit":null,"LPPointBenefit":null,"MGrossAmt":1000.0,"LPDiscountAmt":null,"LPAmountSpendFactor":null,"LPPointEarnedFactor":null,"LPPointsCalculated":0,"LPDiscountFactor":null,"RefBillNo":null},{"POSBillItemId":171,"ItemId":"T1036","BarCode":"1","ItemName":"SKIRT","Division":"Gents","Section":"Upper","Department":"Shirt","Article":"GENTS-UPPER-SHIRT","Qty":1.0,"RtQty":0.0,"MRP":1000.0,"RSP":1000.0,"ESP":1000.0,"MRPAmt":1000.0,"BasicAmt":1000.0,"PromoAmt":0.0,"GrossAmt":1000.0,"IDiscountDisplay":null,"IDiscountAmt":0.0,"SalePrice":1000.0,"IGrossAmt":1000.0,"MDiscountAmt":0.0,"DiscountAmt":0.0,"NetAmt":1000.0,"TaxPercent":5.0,"TaxAmt":47.62,"TaxableAmt":952.38,"IDiscountFactor":0.0,"MDiscountFactor":0.0,"PromoCode":null,"PromoDiscountFactor":null,"RefPOSBillItemId":null,"LPDiscountBenefit":null,"LPPointBenefit":null,"MGrossAmt":1000.0,"LPDiscountAmt":null,"LPAmountSpendFactor":null,"LPPointEarnedFactor":null,"LPPointsCalculated":0,"LPDiscountFactor":null,"RefBillNo":null}],"POSBillMOP":[{"POSBillMOPId":93,"MOPId":"112","MOPName":"Cash","MOPType":"CSH","CurrencyId":"1","BaseTender":2000.0,"BaseBalance":0.0,"BaseAmt":2000.0,"Tender":2000.0,"CCNo":null}],"POSCustomer":[]},"membershipId":null,"BillEvent":"NEW","event":"addTransaction","apiTypeResolver":"api","providerCode":"LPCAP","metadata":{"enterpriseMetadata":{"enterpriseId":"5a3229d5ccbc37c3449a4890","cluster":"api.capillary.co.in","apiversion":"v1.1","pointredemptionview\_otpvalidation":"0","couponredemptionview\_otpvalidation":"0"},"storeMetadata":{"password":"and123","username":"and.ho1","storeCode":"3"},"requestMetadata":{"requestUid":"c7bdad7e-3361-41a3-8ff6-d9db93b414b2","mqReferenceNo":"8c7c54e9-f428-4761-9c65-f6bb86f5df3a"}}}"", :exception=\>#\<LogStash::Json::ParserError: Unrecognized token 'billingDetails': was expecting ('true', 'false' or 'null')  
at [Source: (byte[])""{"billingDetails":{"POSBILL":[{"BillId":49,"BillNo":"POS/16Oct18","BillDate":"2018-10-12T17:29:03.053","TerminalId":"2","customerId":"","cardNo":"","StockPointId":"1","DiscountId":"","MRPAmt":"2000.00","BasicAmt":"2000.00","PromoAmt":"0","SaleAmt":"2000.00","ReturnAmt":"0","GrossAmt":"2000.00","LPDiscountAmt":"0","discountBenefitId":"","pointBenefit":"","DiscountAmt":"0.00","NetAmt":"2000.00","ChargeAmt":"0","NetPayable":"2000","RoundOff":"0","ExTaxAmt":"0","PromoCode":"","PromoBenefit":"","Bil"[truncated 2407 bytes]; line: 1, column: 19]\>}

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**Author:** ![Anand\_Upadhyay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anand_upadhyay/32/37080_2.png) [@Anand\_Upadhyay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anand_Upadhyay)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-nested-json-parse/154559/3 "2018-10-30T12:01:31Z")

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Solved... i was trying to parse JSON String

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-nested-json-parse/154559/4 "2018-11-27T12:01:34Z")

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