Re: [tlug] JSON parsing... almost... [SOLVED]

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Simon,

Thank you for responding.
> Who knows? But if you do console.log(dataObject), you can at least find out
> what it's sending you back.
>    
Well, I was about to write back and tell you that 
console.log(dataObject) outputs nothing, and JSON.parse gives me an 
error before that anyway...
However, while tinkering with the code in order to provide a clear 
example of what I mean, I came across the source of my problem.
Turns out, the $.post command is *already* turning the JSON response it 
gets into a Javascript object before it hands it over to the function 
you tell it to call.
Which means that when I was calling JSON.parse on it, it was trying to 
parse an object into an object.
Doh!

So the problem turned out to be that it wasn't JSON.parse that I wasn't 
understanding, it was the $.post command. It automates things more than 
I knew.
Thanks for responding inspiring me to go in the right direction.

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Dave M G