jQuery.parseJSON throws “Invalid JSON” error due to escaped single quote in JSON

Question

I’m making requests to my server using jQuery.post() and my server is returning JSON objects (like { \"var\": \"value\", ... }). However, if any of

Answer 1

I understand where the problem lies and when I look at the specs its clear that unescaped single quotes should be parsed correctly.

I am using jquery`s jQuery.parseJSON function to parse the JSON string but still getting the parse error when there is a single quote in the data that is prepared with json_encode.

Could it be a mistake in my implementation that looks like this (PHP - server side):

$data = array();

$elem = array();
$elem['name'] = 'Erik';
$elem['position'] = 'PHP Programmer';
$data[] = json_encode($elem);

$elem = array();
$elem['name'] = 'Carl';
$elem['position'] = 'C Programmer';
$data[] = json_encode($elem);

$jsonString = "[" . implode(", ", $data) . "]";

The final step is that I store the JSON encoded string into an JS variable:

If I use "" instead of '' it still throws an error.

SOLUTION:

The only thing that worked for me was to use bitmask JSON_HEX_APOS to convert the single quotes like this:

json_encode($tmp, JSON_HEX_APOS);

Is there another way of tackle this issue? Is my code wrong or poorly written?

Thanks