How to loop through an array of JSON object?

Recently, I wrote a shell script, which needs to loop through an array of JSON object, and process them one by one. Here is the code snippet for how I do it.

• names.json

  {
    "names": [
        {
            "first": "James",
            "last": "Bond"
        },
        {
            "first": "Harry",
            "last": "Potter"
        }
    ]
  } 
  

• test.sh

  i=0
  jq -c '.names[]' names.json | while read -r name; do
    echo object "${i}":
    echo "${name}"
    ((i+=1))
  done
  

• run

  $ ./test.sh
  object 0:
  {"first":"James","last":"Bond"}
  object 1:
  {"first":"Harry","last":"Potter"}
  

  The -c option of jq means:

  compact instead of pretty-printed output