I have a JSON object as a string, I am parsing it with JSON.parse() but the resulting object is still a string. Am I doing something wrong?

var myString = "{Username:Brad,Password:12345}";

// adding in the quotes or else it throws an error saying 'unidentified token U
var myJson = JSON.parse('"' + myString + '"');

console.log(myJson.Username); // prints 'undefined'
console.log(typeof(myJson));  // prints 'string'

I have a JSON object as a string, I am parsing it with JSON.parse() but the resulting object is still a string. Am I doing something wrong?

var myString = "{Username:Brad,Password:12345}";

// adding in the quotes or else it throws an error saying 'unidentified token U
var myJson = JSON.parse('"' + myString + '"');

console.log(myJson.Username); // prints 'undefined'
console.log(typeof(myJson));  // prints 'string'

• javascript
• json
• node.js

• 3 The string is not a valid representation of JSON. The keys and values should be wrapped in quotes. var obj = JSON.parse('{"Username": "Brad","Password": "12345"}'); Use JSONLint to check if your JSON is valid. – Tushar Commented Jan 11, 2016 at 3:34
• Thank you, that was the issue. Quotes were there in my client, and for some reason in the response in my server they disapeared. – BradStell Commented Jan 11, 2016 at 3:40

1 Answer 1

That's not valid JSON. keys and strings need to be quoted:

var myString = '{"Username":"Brad","Password":12345}';
var myJson = JSON.parse( myString );

See json for information about JSON.