How to get “Data” field from xhr.responseText?

Question

I have XMLHttpRequest() function given below

var searchFriendRequests = function (userid) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open(\'G         


        

Answer 1

When you make your ajax request you can provide dataType option:

dataType: 'json'

For such request when you receive response:

If json is specified, the response is parsed using jQuery.parseJSON before being passed, as an object, to the success handler. The parsed JSON object is made available through the responseJSON property of the jqXHR object.

you can access your data like:

var data =  xhr.responseJSON

Full example:

  $ajax.({
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function( xhr ) {
      var yourData =  xhr.responseJSON;
      console.log( yourData );
    },
  });