Question

I’m passing an json object to my js file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/main.js">
  { lang: 'de' }
</script>

Trying to get the json object in main.js:

var scriptContent = $('script').filter(function () { return this.src.match(/js\/main\.js/g); }).html(),
  params = $.parseJSON( scriptContent.replace(/"/g, '"') );

But this results in the following error: JSON.parse: expected property name or '}'

As you can see I already tried replacing " by "

I tried { lang: "de" } instead of { lang: 'de' }

How to get this working?

Answer 1

Your snippet is incorrect JSON. Property keys have to be quoted too.

To quickly produce valid JSON (for testing purposes?), use JSON.stringify( some_object ), eg:

JSON.stringify({ lang: "de" });
>>> {"lang":"de"}