Convert JSON Serialized String Containing HTML Entities into object

Question

I have a string that looks like this:

"["Software","3rd Party"]"

How can I convert this to an object in javascript?

I familiar with converting HTML Entities to DOM Objects:

$("<div/>").html(encodedStr).text();

My situation is a little different than the one above. I don't want to create HTML, I need to create an object.

Answer 1

Use the built-in JSON.parse :

var jstr = $("<div/>").html(encodedStr).text();
var obj = JSON.parse(jstr);

Since you're using jQuery anyway, you can use $.parseJSON() instead of JSON.parse() if you need to support browsers older than IE8 . (jQuery simply calls JSON.parse() when it's available.)

Answer 2

You can use "he" library with JSON.parse . "he" can encode and decode HTML code.

var str = he.decode("["Software","3rd Party"]");
var obj = JSON.parse(str);