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How can I use JavaScript to parse Ruby JSON string

  • I'm trying to get the JSON object from a JSON outputted string from a Rails app. Currently in JavaScript I'm doing: data = "<%= @chromosomes.html_safe %>"; However, since there are quotes at the beginning and end of the JSON object, it is not being rendered as a JSON object. Instead it is doing something like data = "[{"name":"YHet","organism_id":"4ea9b90e859723d3f7000037"}]" Is there a way that I can remove the beginning and end quotes so that the object is treated as an array instead of a string?

  • Answer:

    Why don't you do: data = <%= @chromosomes.html_safe %>; Sidenote: I hope you do something like: @chromosomes = [{ name: "YHet", organism_id: "foo" }].to_json

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Use eval: var dataObject = eval('(' + dataString + ')');

rottz

Use JSON object that is included in most of browsers or if you are using jQuery use $.jsonParse method that try to use JSON object if defined otherwise parse using eval or some safer way.

Hauleth

If you are using jQuery you can do the following var data = jQuery.parseJSON('[{"name":"YHet","organism_id":"4ea9b90e859723d3f7000037"}]');

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