var myObject = eval('(' + myJSONtext + ')');
I hope this help.
check out this page:
http://www.json.org/js.html
Porta
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Ron Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> Thanx for the quick reply.
>
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 20:17 -0500, Peter Karman wrote:
>> Ron Savage wrote on 10/10/08 7:48 PM:
>> > Hi Folks
>> >
>> > I'm using YUI (Yahoo User Interface) to display JSON data hard-coded in
>> > the web page. But when I send the data from my CGI::App, it is not
>> > displayed. Here's the core Javascript:
>> > var json_data = new YAHOO.util.LocalDataSource
>> > (
>> > {results:
>> > [
>> > {name: "Ron Savage", email: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", phone: "0"},
>> > {name: "Zoe Savage", email: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", phone: "9"}
>> > ]
>> > }
>> > );
>> > If I replace the above with this, where o.responseText is returned from
>> > the server via Ajax:
>> > json_data = new YAHOO.util.LocalDataSource(o.responseText);
>> > the datasource displays "No records found.".
>> > The Perl code on the server is:
>> > return encode_json {results => [map { {email => $$_{'email'}, name =>
>> > $$_{'name'}, phone => $$_{'phone'} } } @people]};
>> > Any ideas?
>> I use JSON::XS with YUI and CatalystX::CRUD::YUI and it works well. You can
>> see
>> how I encode here:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/src/KARMAN/CatalystX-CRUD-YUI-0.006/lib/CatalystX/CRUD/YUI/TT.pm
>>
>> My first guess is that the data structure you are sending to the client is
>> not
>> what you have YUI configured to receive. Try wget (or similar) to see what
>> the
>> JSON is by making the same request that your AJAX call makes.
>
> Firebug says my test data is an object, containing a object called
> results. I changed the above (so I could inspect it) to:
>
> var data =
> {results:
> [
> {name: "Ron Savage", email: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", phone: "0", id: "01"},
> {name: "Zoe Savage", email: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", phone: "9", id: "09"}
> ]
> }
> var json_data = new YAHOO.util.LocalDataSource(data);
>
> That OK.
>
> But what comes back from the Ajax call is displayed in red with ""
> around it, i.e. it is a string, with the content being what I expect:
>
> "{"results":[{"email":"[EMAIL PROTECTED]","name":"Ron
> Savage","id":"3","phone":"0421920622"},{"email":"[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]","name":"Zoe Savage","id":"4","phone":"95448128"}]}"
>
> Sure the keys are quoted, but that's not the problem.
>
> So how do I convert the string into a JS object?
>
>> And if you haven't tried it yet, get Firebug for Firefox. I can't imagine
>> doing
>> JS devel anymore without it. It's like the Perl debugger plus Data::Dumper
>> plus
>> a Dom detective all in one.
>
> It's truely impressive.
> --
> Ron Savage
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://savage.net.au/index.html
>
>
>
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