Question

Can someone tell me where I am going wrong with this class. It is not evaluating the raw string back to a JSON Type in Javascript and I am not entirely sure what I am doing wrong. When I run it through JS Lint it says that it is valid JSON.

Heres the Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/pGygM/1/

Answer 1

You have a few issues…

• jQuery isn’t selected as the language in jsFiddle.
• When using eval() to pass, wrap it in parenthesis so eval() doesn’t think it’s simply a block.
• jQuery has $.parseJSON(), use that instead.
• You have an array with a named key – that is not an array, but an object, and invalid JSON.
• alert() won’t help you debug the object as it will implicitly call toString() on the object, returning '[object Object]' which isn’t too useful. Use console.log() instead.