Question

In my firebug I see the server respond with:

{"status":"Results Found","errorcode":"0","result":[{"name":"test","id":"1"},{"name":"some","id":"2"}]}


When I do the following I get a "o is null" error.
$.ajax({
 type: "get",
 url: "http://someurl",
 data: $("#eventsearch").serialize(),
 dataType: 'json',
 success: function(msg){
var o = $.parseJSON(msg); //o is NULL error
}

However when I do parseURL on the same string but not as a server response everything is good. What is going on here?

var t = '{"status":"Results Found","errorcode":"0","result":[{"name":"test","id":"1"},{"name":"some","id":"2"}]}';

var o = $.parseJSON(t); //everything is good here

Answer 1

when you set the dataType:json the json is already parsed you don’t have to do

var o = $.parseJSON(msg);

you can do

console.log(msg.result[0].name);