jquery - JSON.parse: expected property name or '}' at line 1 column 2 of the JSON data

Question

I am getting my JSON string as:

newStr = { total:"1", page:"1", records:"2", rows: [<li>a</li><li>b</li>] }.
jQuery("#list").addJSONData(JSON.parse(newStr)); 

Answer 1

You are trying to parse something that is not a string. This will implicitly call toString on the object, and you get the string [object Object], which is not valid JSON.

Either parse a string:

newStr = '{"total":"1","page":"1","records":"2","rows":["<li>a</li>", "<li>b</li>"]}';
jQuery("#list").addJSONData(JSON.parse(newStr)); 

or use the object:

newStr = { total:"1", page:"1", records:"2", rows: ["<li>a</li>", "<li>b</li>"] };
jQuery("#list").addJSONData(newStr);