jQuery.parseJSON single quote vs double quote
JavascriptJqueryJsonJavascript Problem Overview
What actually the difference between this?
This works fine:
var obj1 = jQuery.parseJSON('{"orderedList": "true"}');
document.write("obj1 "+ obj1.orderedList );
but the following does not work:
var obj2 = jQuery.parseJSON("{'orderedList': 'true'}");
document.write("obj2 "+ obj2.orderedList );
Why is that?
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
That's because double quotes is considered standard while single quote is not. This is not really specific to JQuery, but its about JSON standard. So irrespective of JS toolkit, you should expect same behaviour.
> A value can be a string in double quotes, or a number, or true or false or null, or an object or an array. These structures can be nested.
Update
Or perhaps its a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2275359/jquery-single-quote-in-json-response
Solution 2 - Javascript
As per the API documentation, double quotes are considered valid JSON, single quotes aren't.
Solution 3 - Javascript
Go to www.Jsonlint.com website and check your single quotes json string you will found that it is not a valid json string. Because double quotes json is standard json format.
jsonlint.com is a website to check json format right or not.
Solution 4 - Javascript
You could use replace to fix this. This worked for me.
var str = "{'orderedList': 'true'}";
str = str.replace(/\'/g, '\"');
JSON.parse(str);