Deserializing a JSON into a JavaScript object

deserialization, javascript, json

Solution

Modern browsers support `JSON.parse()`.

var arr_from_json = JSON.parse( json_string );

In browsers that don't, you can include the `json2` library.

Problem

I have a string in a Java server application that is accessed using AJAX. It looks something like the following: ``` var json = [{ "adjacencies": [ { "nodeTo": "graphnode2", "nodeFrom": "graphnode1", "data": { "$color": "#557EAA" } } ], "data": { "$color": "#EBB056", "$type": "triangle", "$dim": 9 }, "id": "graphnode1", "name": "graphnode1" },{ "adjacencies": [], "data": { "$color": "#EBB056", "$type": "triangle", "$dim": 9 }, "id": "graphnode2", "name": "graphnode2" }]; ``` When the string gets pulled from the server, is there an easy way to turn this into a living JavaScript object (or array)? Or do I have to manually split the string and build my object manually?

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