Question

I have a jquery $.ajax call and in my success callback, I have this

success: function(response) {
    console.log('response = '+response);
    console.log('response.validate = '+response.validate);
}

Here’s my console output in Firebug:

response = {"validate":true}
response.validate = undefined

How the heck is response.validate equal to undefined?

Answer 1

Add this ajax option:

dataType: "json"

If you don’t tell jQuery that you are returning JSON and you don’t set the proper headers, jQuery doesn’t know how to process it.