How to write proper string to work with JSON.parse

Question

I've got a problem with my node.js application. I'm trying to parse string using JSON.parse like this:

try{
    skills = JSON.parse(user.skills);
    }catch(e){
    console.log(e);
}

In user.skills I've got such a string:

"[ { name: Dreamweaver, level: 60 }, { name: Phototshop, level: 80 }]"

and it throws me: [SyntaxError: Unexpected token n]. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Your JSON data is incorrect. There should be quotes "" around strings.

should be like this

var str = "[ { \"name\": \"Dreamweaver\", \"level\": 60 }, { \"name\": \"Phototshop\", \"level\": 80 }]"

If you want to see how should be a proper JSON String Try this

var data = {name:"mark"}
JSON.stringify(data) //returns "{"name":"mark"}" Here you have to care about escaping quotes.

Answer 2

JSON data needs identifiers and values to be strings, try this:

'[ { "name": "Dreamweaver", "level": "60" }, { "name": "Phototshop", "level": "80" }]';

Answer 3

You can use http://jsonlint.com/ to varify json. After that we can stringify and parse json respectively.