If the json file is e.g. uploaded via a web-form and therefore dynamic, you shouldn't rename it and add some commonjs export statements, because that would be a complicated workaround to an otherwise easy problem that potentially causes injection vulnerabilities. 2. you can already use require on json files our of the box –

That's great, however, this question is about a user trying to copy an object literal into a .json file that they then load in with ajax, only, their object literal was in a format that wasn't valid for JSON.

Apr 16, 2023 · JSON in JavaScript. JSON (in JavaScript) is a string! People often assume all JavaScript objects are JSON and that JSON is a JavaScript object. This is incorrect. In JavaScript, var x = {x:y} is not JSON, this is a JavaScript object. The two are not the same thing. The JSON equivalent (represented in the JavaScript language) would be var x ...

I have json file mydata.json, and in this file is some json-encoded data. I want obtain this data in file index.html and process this data in JavaScript. But a don't know how to connect.json file ...

The only time you won't be able to use JSON.parse() is if you are programming for an ancient browser, such as IE 7 (2006), IE 6 (2001), Firefox 3 (2008), Safari 3.x (2009), etc. Alternatively, you may be in an esoteric JavaScript environment that doesn't include the standard APIs.

May 22, 2012 · If you use jQuery you can also try jQuery.parseJSON for parsing instead. An option for remotely getting json would be using jQuery.getJSON. To load it you can either use JSONP or some kind of library with ajax functionality like jQuery.ajax or Ajax.Request. It can be done in raw javascript but that's just ugly and re-inventing the wheel.

Sep 13, 2015 · If you have such a string that you obtained from somewhere, you need to first parse it into a JavaScript object, using JSON.parse: var obj = JSON.parse(json); Now you can manipulate the object any way you want, including push as shown above. If you then want to put it back into a JSON string, then you use JSON.stringify:

Jul 3, 2009 · Vote to reopen because while Array's and Objects are similar in javascript they have differences and this is one of them safely looping over an object's properties is a lot harder than an array in Javascript, and the answer linked to with the close covers explicitly only arrays, maybe needs pointing to a different question on the close but ...

I'm trying to load a local JSON file but it won't work. Here is my JavaScript code (using jQuery): var json = $.getJSON("test.json"); var data = eval("(" +json.responseText + &q...

If you really want to convert formObject to JSON, then you are out of luck, since you cannot convert jQuery objects to JSON (and you are missing $ in "firstName": ('#firstName')). Please be specific about the result you want to get, right now it's a bit confusing since it seems you are struggling with the right terminology.