Question

This is probably a trivial question but I’ve been looking for the past couple of days with no solution. I am making an ajax call like this:

 $.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: "results",
    dataType: 'json',
})
.fail( function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
    alert(errorThrown);
    })
    .done(function(data){   
        $.each(data.myitems, function(index, item){
          // do stuff here  
        });
    });

My json looks like this:

{
"thisvariable":1,
"anothervariable":2,
    "myitems":[
        {"name":"Matt",
        "birthday":"1978-02-23 00:00:00"},
        {"name":"Carol\y",
        "birthday":"1967-05-05 00:00:00"},
        {"name":"Bob",
        "birthday":"1984-02-03 00:00:00"}
        ]
}

When I make this call, I get “SyntaxError: Unexpected token y”. It doesn’t like the backslash in Carol\y. This data is coming from a mysql database.

Answer 1

Whatever is creating the JSON on the server side, should be properly escaping the backslash: Carol\\y.

If you can’t control how the JSON is created, maybe you could intercept it and replace occurrences of '\' with '\\' before it makes it back to the client.