Node.js how do you read a JSON with an element that is a HTTP address - json

Question

OK I just ran into an issue. I am using Auth0 to create users with different rights (not scopes just rights) in the App Metadata. When I decode the Token I get this json:
{
"iss": "https://testing.auth0.com/",
"sub": "auth0|58e7bae154941844b507eaf5",
"aud": "OSBkLd832tIhpDe0QFJbQ9vutgB2s6cJ",
"exp": 1497016797,
"iat": 1496980797,
"https://thetestgroup.com/app_metadata": {
"is_admin": true
}
}
As you can see the app metadata is in the element "https://thetestgroup.com/app_metadata". Normally I would just do something like this in my code (auth.payload.iat) to get the iat but for the app_metadata it rejects it because of the :. Is there a good way to get at that data?

Answer 1

ok lets talk javascript (node) and your json
Firefox Scratchpad (Shift-F4)
var x = {
"iss": "https://testing.auth0.com/",
"sub": "auth0|58e7bae154941844b507eaf5",
"aud": "OSBkLd832tIhpDe0QFJbQ9vutgB2s6cJ",
"exp": 1497016797,
"iat": 1496980797,
"https://thetestgroup.com/app_metadata": {
"is_admin": true
}
}
x['https://thetestgroup.com/app_metadata'].is_admin // hit run
/*
true
*/
node.js
~ $ node -v
v8.1.0
~ $ node
> var x = {
... "iss": "https://testing.auth0.com/",
... "sub": "auth0|58e7bae154941844b507eaf5",
... "aud": "OSBkLd832tIhpDe0QFJbQ9vutgB2s6cJ",
... "exp": 1497016797,
... "iat": 1496980797,
... "https://thetestgroup.com/app_metadata": {
..... "is_admin": true
..... }
... }
undefined
> x['https://thetestgroup.com/app_metadata'].is_admin
true
>
Please provide a mcve since pure JS and JSON are quite happily using the (strange) key - as demonstrated.