jquery解析json报错_使用jQuery.parseJSON的JSON解析错误

This code fails with an exception indicating invalid JSON:

var example = '{ "AKEY": undefined }';

jQuery.parseJSON(example);

I was able to fix it by replacing all undefineds with empty strings. Are undefineds not part of JSON?

解决方案

If you can wrap your head around this, the token undefined is actually undefined.

Allow me to elaborate: even though JavaScript has a special primitive value called undefined, undefined is not a JavaScript keyword nor does it have any special meaning. You can break code which tests for the existance of an object by comparing to undefined by defining it.

var obj = { BKEY: 'I exist!' };

if (obj.AKEY == undefined) console.log ('no AKEY');

if (obj.BKEY == undefined) console.log ('should not happen');

undefined='uh oh';

if (obj.AKEY == undefined) console.log ('oops!'); // Logically, we want this to execute, but it will not!

if (obj.BKEY == undefined) console.log ('should not happen');

The only console output will be 'no AKEY'. After we've assigned to the global variable undefined, obj.AKEY == undefined becomes false because undefined != 'uh oh'. obj.BKEY == undefined still returns false, but only because we're lucky. If I had set obj.BKEY='uh oh', then obj.BKEY == undefined would be true, even though it actually exists!

You probably want to explicity set AKEY to null. (By the way, null is a keyword; null='uh oh' throws an exception).

You could also simply omit AKEY from your JSON, in which case you would find:

typeof(example.AKEY) == 'undefined'

(If you set AKEY to null, then typeof(example.AKEY) == 'object'.)

The only real difference between setting to null and omitting is whether you want the key to appear in a foreach loop.