jquery how to deserialize json object

asp.net, jquery, json

Solution

You can do this with:

var mydata; // [{"id":"67","name":"TestString"}]

var json = $.parseJSON(mydata);

the json variable will contain the de-serialized json object

Problem

How can you deserialize this json object below? ``` [{"id":"67","name":"TestString"}] ``` I tried to do this below but couldnt succeed... ``` success: function (data, status) { $.each(data, function (dt) { var mydata = data.d; alert(mydata); // returns [{"id":"67","name":"TestString"}] $("#txt_speciality").tokenInput("add", mydata.id); }); } ``` here is the way I am creating the json object ``` [WebMethod] public static string get_specialities(string ProfessionalID) { Database db = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase("Connection String2"); DbCommand dbCommand; dbCommand = db.GetStoredProcCommand("Select_Professionals_Speciality"); db.AddInParameter(dbCommand, "prof_id", DbType.Int16, Convert.ToInt16(ProfessionalID)); IDataReader dr = db.ExecuteReader(dbCommand); //[{ id: 3, name: "test3" }] string return_str="["; int i = 0; while (dr.Read()) { if (i > 0) return_str += ","; return_str += "{\"id\":\"" + dr["SpecialtyID"].ToString().Trim() + "\",\"name\":\"" + dr["SpecialtyName"].ToString().Trim() + "\"}"; i++; } return_str += "]"; return return_str; } ```

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