How do I format a Microsoft JSON date?

Question

I\'m taking my first crack at Ajax with jQuery. I\'m getting my data onto my page, but I\'m having some trouble with the JSON data that is returned for Date data types. Basi

Answer 1

I ended up adding the "characters into Panos's regular expression to get rid of the ones generated by the Microsoft serializer for when writing objects into an inline script:

So if you have a property in your C# code-behind that's something like

protected string JsonObject { get { return jsSerialiser.Serialize(_myObject); }}

And in your aspx you have

You'd get something like

var myObject = '{"StartDate":"\/Date(1255131630400)\/"}';

Notice the double quotes.

To get this into a form that eval will correctly deserialize, I used:

myObject = myObject.replace(/"\/Date\((\d+)\)\/"/g, 'new Date($1)');

I use Prototype and to use it I added

String.prototype.evalJSONWithDates = function() {
    var jsonWithDates = this.replace(/"\/Date\((\d+)\)\/"/g, 'new Date($1)');
    return jsonWithDates.evalJSON(true);
}