You would normally expect that to work.
What content-type is your server putting in the header for the JSON data?
That could be throwing it off.
Also note that a bare primitive value (true, false, null, or a string or
number) is not valid JSON. The only valid JSON is either an object enclosed
in {} or an array enclosed in []. However, this is not what's causing your
problem. jQuery doesn't use a strict JSON parser - it simply evals the JSON
text - so a bare primitive value should work fine if everything else is OK.
-Mike
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:08 AM, livefree75 jpittm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the following code on the client side:
$.ajax({
dataType : 'json',
// other options
success : function(json_response) {
console.log(typeof response, response); // Using Firefox's
firebug
}
});
And this PHP code on the server side:
?php
// php processing code
$response = some_boolean_value();
print json_encode($response);
?
Now, using Firebug, I can verify that the actual JSON response coming
back is indeed either true or false (without the quotes),
which should evaluate to Javascript boolean true or false. However,
when I obtain it in the success() method of my $.ajax() call, it comes
in as a string. (e.g. true or false). i.e., the console.log()
call renders: string true
Shouldn't it render: boolean true ?
Is this a bug?
Jamie
