How to convert JSON to plain text?

{"Days":["is not a number"]} to Days is not a number.

Here is the code:

$('.best_in_place').bind("ajax:error", function(jqXHR,error, errorThrown) {
  alert(error.responseText);
});

How to convert JSON to plain text?

{"Days":["is not a number"]} to Days is not a number.

Here is the code:

$('.best_in_place').bind("ajax:error", function(jqXHR,error, errorThrown) {
  alert(error.responseText);
});

• javascript
• jquery
• json

• is it always a object with a key-value pair, and the value is a array with a length of one? – Math chiller Commented Sep 9, 2013 at 16:20

3 Answers 3

Convert the response into JSON object and parse its key-value pair

var error = JSON.parse( error.responseText );
for( var name in error ) {
    console.log( name + " " + error[ name ] ); // Days is not a number
}

As you're using jQuery, this might help:

var result = '';
$.each(error.responseText, function(key, value) {
    result += key + ' ' + value;
});

This will also work and can easily be adjusted if the response holds multiple key-value-pairs.

Demo

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Use json-to-plain-text npm module