# No function to decode the json?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [November 21, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215 "2021-11-21T17:12:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215/1 "2021-11-21T17:12:16Z")
Before using Thunkable, I could read the tree structure of a bucket at once and decode according to what I wanted to obtain
Here, if I am not mistaken, we can certainly access the properties and values but invoking a cloud variable amounts to reading the database as many times as we want a set of properties and values which can take a lot of time. .
Is this true?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215/2 "2021-11-21T17:27:33Z")
Yes, all true.
But you can get the cloud variable value _once_, assign it to an `app` variable and then use that app variable for all of your decoding/parsing. That way you only do **one** read of the Firebase data.
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215/3 "2021-11-21T17:55:14Z")
Remember that Firebase will return the value as a `JSON Object` so you can assign this object to an **app** variable and then access any property/value using the `object` blocks.
Something like this
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### Author:  [@bibbi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bibbi)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215/4 "2021-11-22T03:01:03Z")
i went through a few posts about json decoding but couldn’t access the td property from the following response
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215/5 "2021-11-22T04:02:05Z")
You get the value of **td** this way
You can also use the `dot notation` and get the value this way
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/no-function-to-decode-the-json/1627215/6 "2022-02-20T04:02:12Z")
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