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Hane
Hane

Reputation: 11

JSON Throwing Error on Parsing

Here is the JSON String I have. I have removed the opening and closing brackets from the JSON because I need to use the JSON values in jQuery to actually load the data in a select box: 

{
    "text": "Pediatric FA, CPR & AED (2015)",
    "id": "128177000002431552~Pediatric FA, CPR & AED DVD Set (2015)~YES~117.19"
}, {
    "text": "FA, CPR & AED Manual (2015)",
    "id": "128177000002431564~FA, CPR & AED Manual (2015)~YES~17.73"
}

here is my Javascript Code 

$.post("items.cfm",{"term":request.term})
                .done(function(data){
                    try{
                        var obj = JSON.parse(data),
                        values = [];
                        $.each(data, function(i, obj) {
                            values.push({"label":obj[x].text, "value":obj[x].id, "price":obj[x].id.split('~')[3]});
                        })
                        response(values);
                    }catch(e){
                        alert(e);
                    }
                })
                .fail(function(e){
                    alert(e);
                });

every time I run it I am getting the error

SyntaxError: Unexpected token , in JSON at position

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1611

Answers (1)

StriplingWarrior
StriplingWarrior

Reputation: 156728

You have two JSON objects separated by a comma. If you meant this to be an array, you need to surround it with array brackets:

[
{
    "text": "Pediatric FA, CPR & AED (2015)",
    "id": "128177000002431552~Pediatric FA, CPR & AED DVD Set (2015)~YES~117.19"
}, {
    "text": "FA, CPR & AED Manual (2015)",
    "id": "128177000002431564~FA, CPR & AED Manual (2015)~YES~17.73"
}
]

As a side note, if your server is generating invalid JSON, you should take a good look at the code that's producing the JSON. Chances are, there's code trying to generate this string by hand, which is a bad practice. The server should be using a library to convert the returned value into JSON.

Upvotes: 3

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