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adrianp
adrianp

Reputation: 2551

Facebook SDK: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token _

I have the following index.html: http://jsfiddle.net/fxyfwv8L/ Notice that I use the Facebook SDK initialization along with the jQuery Face Detection one. For some reason, these two are conflicting and throw some exceptions such as:

(index):1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token _
(index):1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token _

These seem to be generated by a JSON parse(), but I'm not able to understand why and how the FB SDK and jQuery Face Detection conflict.

A live demo is available here: http://stormy-river-6729.herokuapp.com/ (make sure to check the JavaScript console).

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4724

Answers (1)

M1ke
M1ke

Reputation: 6406

The error is coming from line 16512 in the jquery.facedetection.js file.

var data = "string" == typeof event.data ? JSON.parse(event.data) : event.data, scope = {

It happens because event.data is set in the format key=value and not as a JSON item.

To solve this add code of the format

try {
    JSON.parse(event.data)
}
catch (e){
}

To catch the parsing error if it happens.

Upvotes: 4

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