You cannot convert HTML to JSON and vice versa. HTML is a markup language, while JSON is a data interchange format.
You need to parse your HTML with Nokogiri or Hpricot, extract whatever data you want from it and put it in a Hash, then call .to_json on it to get the JSON response. -- Dheeraj Kumar On Tuesday 8 January 2013 at 12:33 AM, Anush J. wrote: > Hi Jordon, > Thanks for your response. > I thought the JSON(response.body) performs the conversion of HTML->JSON. > But I also tried response.body.to_json which gave me the same error. > Will be great if you can explain a bit. Mean while I will also try using > nokigiri. > > Thanks > Anush > > Jordon Bedwell wrote in post #1091317: > > Hai, > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Anush J. <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > I call the above method in my controller and send @hash to view. > > In my browser I see the below error: > > > > JSON::ParserError in Original contentController#index > > > > 706: unexpected token at 'Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > > > > And the rest of the page is printed without error in html format. > > > > It's printed out as HTML because it is HTML. HTML is not JSON and vice > > verse. If you wish to parse the page as it is you need to use something > > like Nokogiri so it gets tokenized, if you expected JSON you should > > contact them and ask them what went wrong. > > > > --- > > > > Jordon Bedwell > > http://envygeeks.com/ > > https://twitter.com/envygeeks > > > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
