javascriptangularjsjsonlocal-storageng-storage

Accessing item from LocalStorage (Angular 1.2)

I am running an old version of Angular - I have an object within my localStorage and I am trying to retrieve a single item from the object (rather than the whole the thing..)

var email = localStorage.user;

However the output of the localStorage.user variable is much longer (see below)- how would I retrieve the email address in this case 'bob@abc.com'?

{"firstname":"Bob","lastname":"Dole","id":"2000001999","accountId":"15","email":"bob@abc.com","instances":[{"name":"Test"}]}"
Solution

  • LocalStorage values are always stored as strings. In order to refer to the email in the object, we need to convert it to a JSON. We can do that by parsing the string using JSON.parse() method like below : 

    var email = JSON.parse(localstorage.user).email