Why is jqXHR.responseText returning a string instead of a JSON object?

Question

I have an $.ajax() request with the dataType set to \"json.\" The server is returning JSON with the correct mime type of \"application/json.\" And yet the responseText in my

Answer 1

Try

$.ajaxSetup({
    "error": function(jqXHR, status, thrownError) {
        alert('error');            
        console.log(jqXHR.responseJSON);
    }
});