Question

I have a C# class that I want to convert to a JSON string, send it to my web client and using jQuery, parse that into an array of JSON objects. Is that possible?

here is some example code

    class mnuitm  
    {  
       public string prop1;  
       public string prop2;  
       public List<mnuitm> children;  
    }  

I am trying to build a string that looks like this:  
    {  
      "prop1":"value in prop1",  
      "prop2":"value in prop2",  
      "children":[  
          {  
          "prop1":"value in prop1",  
          "prop2":"value in prop2"  
          },  
          {  
          "prop1":"value in prop1",  
          "prop2":"value in prop2"  
          }  
        ]  
    }, ... (repeat n times, children may not be there or have any number of child items  

    }  //closing bracket

my client makes an ajax call which returns the above as a string
and I’m trying to parse it with jQuery, but it isn’t working.

Is this possible. If not, how should I do it

Thx

Answer 1

Use jQuery.getJSON()

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getJSON/

Alternatively, you can just do JSON.parse(str) in the browsers that support it (I know Chrome/FF4 for sure). For better cross-browser support, use jQuery.parseJSON().

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseJSON/