So this was a frustrating lesson to learn – and please feel free to be entertained by my apparent stupidity.

I was trying to create my own JSON with an xAgent – seems easy enough. I created a simple output which looked like this

{
    'items': [
        {
            'name': 'AK',
            'dc': 23
        }
    ]
}

and when I fed it through my AJAX code it failed.

$.ajax({
	dataType: 'json',
	url: "http://copper.xomino.com/xomino/ExtjsBigData.nsf/xState.xsp?query="+query
	//url: 'http://copper.xomino.com/xomino/Extjs.nsf/xRestService.xsp/byFirstName?count=5'
}).done(function(data){
	console.log(data)
}).fail(function(e){
	console.log('FAIL')
	console.log(e)
})

But what was interesting is that it returned the data (e) correctly. I was baffled and frustrated for way too long.

So I finally asked he correct question of google (isn’t that always the case) and I found that http://jsonlint.com/ was telling me the strings were incorrect…..

because JSON requires double ” and not single ‘

really?

This worked – changed the single to double quotes.

{
    "items": [
        {
            "name": "AK",
            "dc": 23
        }
    ]
}

and I am apparently now less stupid that I was yesterday…….

PS

Kathy recommends – http://json.parser.online.fr/