JQuery 1.5 and new “Text JSON” datatype

Question

I have just updated to JQuery 1.5 and all my ajax calls that return JSON and a number of plugins instantly broke.

In my pre-1.5 code, I specified the dataType like:<

Answer 1

Untested code, add this after jQuery is included, and before your custom code runs.

jQuery.ajaxSetup({
  converters: {
    "json": jQuery.parseJSON,
    "* json": jQuery.parseJSON
  }
});