jQuery.parseJSON(json) converts JSON string into js object_jquery

Overview

Accepts a JSON string and returns the parsed object.

Passing in a malformed JSON string will throw an exception. For example, the following are malformed JSON strings:

{test: 1} (test is not surrounded by double quotes)
{'test': 1} (used single quotes instead of double quotes)

In addition, if you pass in nothing, or an empty string, null or undefined, parseJSON will return null .

Parameters

jsonString

JSON string to parse

Example

Description:

Parse a JSON string

jQuery code:

var str = '{"name":"John"}';
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(str); 
alert( obj.name === "John" );