Question

I am using this tutorial to serialise a C# dictionary.
The C# dictionary gets serialized to a string.
The @Html.Raw(new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(ElementDivIDs)) works like a charm. This is the output I get,:

  var jsonString = {"9":["ele9-tabs-attr9","ele9-tabs-attr48"],"10":["ele10-tabs-attr10"],"11":["ele11-tabs-attr11"],"12":["ele12-tabs-attr12","ele12-tabs-attr49"],"13":["ele13-tabs-attr13"],"14":["ele14-tabs-attr14"]}

I want to convert this into a Javascript associative array.
But the call to jquery.parseJSON returns NULL.

var dictionaryOfOtherDivs = jQuery.parseJSON( jsonString );

dictionaryOfOtherDivs is null after this.

Here’s my code:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
     var jsonString = @Html.Raw(new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(ElementDivIDs))
     console.log(jsonString); 
     var dictionaryOfOtherDivs  = jQuery.parseJSON( jsonString ); 
     for(var dictKey in dictionaryOfOtherDivs)
     { 
        console.log("key = " + dictKey + ", value = " + dictionaryOfOtherDivs[dictKey]); 
     }
     //Do some more things
});
</script>

Answer 1

That’s not a JSON string; that’s an ordinary object literal.

You don’t need to parse it.