Javascript JSON Date Deserialization

Question

I am trying to deserialize a json object that has a javascript date in it. When JSON.stringify is called on the object, dates are serialized to strings that are not properl

Answer 1

The JSON spec does not include special formatting for dates. As such they are often serialized as a string, sometimes with special markings to indicate it should be treated as a Date object if the language supports them. As such, most (all?) browser-native JSON parsers can not round-trip a Date object properly.

There are several good libraries that help with this - I very much like MomentJS though I have used datejs in the past as well. You would just need to iterate over your objects and convert the proper fields to Date objects after they have been parsed.

I find it helpful to remember that the JSON format is much more restrictive than JavaScript object literal notation.