Question

I’ve got a broken web service that I can’t access and alter. It sends down some mainly nice JSON, but one of the attributes is a nested JSON object that is being sent down as a string.

http://www.ireland.com/api/getitemweb/185213
CustomJsonData in the response from the above url is the example.

My question is how could I interpret the CustomJsonData string as an object?

I thought the ‘evil’ eval() might do it, but no luck.

Thanks,
Denis

Answer 1

If you are using eval, you need to add a ( and ) to the string before eval:

var parsedObject = eval("(" + jsonString + ")");

However, as you said, eval is evil, using parseJson from jquery is better (and extra parens not required):

var parsedObject = Jquery.parseJSON(jsonString);

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