Counting JSON objects

[ejaboneta]

I'm trying to count JSON objects but its giving me a character count instead. What am I doing wrong? I'm expecting it to return '1' and I get '225' instead. The JSON data is returned from an AJAX call.

rdata = '{"events":[{"id":"570","title":" John Doe","description":"Call John Doe","type":"Call","user":"3","with":"3087","location":"","starttime":"1288310400","endtime":"0","allday":"false","status":"","page":"true","reminder":"1"}]}';

alert(rdata.length);

[trq]

The data you have is just a string at the moment, not an object. You'll need to convert it into an object first.

[salathe]

If you are using one of the JavaScript libraries/frameworks, there will likely be utilities to handle translating a JSON string into an object. We can't offer the library's way of doing things without knowing which one, if any, that you use. The old-school way would be to use eval(), and a better approach (which your library may already use) would be to use JSON.parse().