Question

I’m having troubles reading a Json result back from a controller method…

I have this method in my controller:

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
    public JsonResult GetCurrent()
    {
        IList<string> profile = new List<string>();
        profile.Add("-1");
        profile.Add("Test");
        profile.Add("");

        return this.Json(profile);
    }

And it is being called by this jquery ajax post:

$.post("/Profile/GetCurrent", function(profile) { profileCompleteOpen(profile); }, "json");

and the javascript function called on the post’s callback:

function profileCompleteOpen(profile) {
   alert(profile);
   alert(profile[0]);
}

The result of the first alert shows the array like this:

[“-1″,”Test”,””]

But the result of the second alert shows this:

[

rather than

-1

What am I doing wrong here… I’ve compared it to one of the other times I’m doing this and it seems to be the exact same. Why isn’t it recognizing it’s an array?

Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

Try converting the json data in profile to a proper object by using eval() on it.

Example:

var profileObject = eval('(' + profile + ')');