Question

So I have my web service which is a WCF and it supports JSON.
When i enter this url
http://localhost/HelloWorldWebService/HelloWorld.svc/getperson
in my browser it returns
{“GetPersonResult”:{“FirstName”:”John”,”LastName”:”Doe”}}

Now I have the following jquery:

function CallService() {
        $.ajax({
            url: "../HelloWorldWebService/HelloWorld.svc/getperson",
            type: "GET",
            dataType: "json",
            processdata: true,
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            success: function (msg) {
                alert('success');
            },
            error: function (xhr, status, error) {
                alert(xhr.responseText);
            }
        });
     }

     $(document).ready(function () { CallService(); });

it shoes the success pop-up …
how can I show the content of the msg in my pop-up?
I tried alert(msg) but it shows [object Object] ???

EDIT: This is what i get when using Firebug with console.log(msg)

So how do I access the FirstName to display it in the alert?

EDIT:

So finally found out how the syntax works. So to get the firstname I had to do
alert(msg.GetPersonResult.FirstName);

Answer 1

Try logging it to the console, so you can see the properties returned by the “msg” object. You can then output the data.

console.log(msg);

It will output your msg object, you can then access variables such as msg.data if that is what it returns.