JSON

The JSON object is new to ES5. It's not a constructor (similarly to Math) and has only two methods: parse() and stringify(). For ES3 browsers that don't support JSON natively, you can use the "shim" from http://json.org.

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It's a lightweight data interchange format. It's a subset of JavaScript that only supports primitives, object literals, and array literals.

Members of the JSON object

Following are the members of the JSON object:

Method

Description

parse(text, callback)

Takes a JSON-encoded string and returns an object: 

    > var data = '{"hello":   1, "hi": [1, 2, 3]}';   
    > var o = JSON.parse(data);   
    > o.hello;   
    1   
    > o.hi;   
    [1, 2, 3]

The optional callback lets you provide your own function that can ...

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