Question

Here is the JSON returned from my Server.

"[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]"

I want to remove the outer double quates. Which means I want the JSON as

[{"description":"A user","name":"test","type":"user"}]

How can I do this? Please help.

Answer 1

As the response from the server is not valid JSON you have to request it as text, fix it, and parse it as JSON. Use dataType: 'text' in your options in the ajax call.

Use the substr method to cut of the first and last character:

data = data.substr(1, data.length - 2);

Then you can parse the JSON:

var obj = $.parseJSON(data);