Convert JSON To Array Javascript

Question

I am currently receiving a JSON Object From the Server side of my application, the result is this

{\"tags\":\"[{value: 2,label: \'Dubstep\'},{value: 3,label:         


        

Answer 1

initSelection: function (element, callback) {
                    var data = $(element).val();
                    callback($.parseJSON(data));
                }

Answer 2

Assuming you got your server side response in a javascript object called response you could parse the tags string property using the $.parseJSON function. But first you will need to fix your server side code so that it returns a valid JSON string for the tags property (in JSON property names must be enclosed in quotes):

// This came from the server
var response = {"tags":"[{\"value\": 2,\"label\": \"Dubstep\"},{\"value\": 3,\"label\": \"BoysIIMen\"},{\"value\": 4,\"label\":\"Sylenth1\"}]"};

// Now you could parse the tags string property into a corresponding
// javascript array:
var tags = $.parseJSON(response.tags);

// and at this stage the tags object will contain the desired array
// and you could access individual elements from it:
alert(tags[0].label);

If for some reason you cannot modify your server side script to provide a valid JSON in the tags property you could still use eval instead of $.parseJSON:

var tags = eval(response.tags);

It's not a recommended approach, normally you should avoid using eval because it will execute arbitrary javascript.