I'm trying to extract just the response from the following response

"{"Message":"Looks like you need to login"}"

I tried to stringyfy it as follows

var response = "{"Message":"Looks like you need to login"}";
var json_response = JSON.stringify(response);

But my response ends up looking something like this.

"{\"Message\":\"Looks like you need to login\"}"

Any ideas on why this is happening? and how I can extract just the message by doing something like

json_response.Message perhaps?

I'm trying to extract just the response from the following response

"{"Message":"Looks like you need to login"}"

I tried to stringyfy it as follows

var response = "{"Message":"Looks like you need to login"}";
var json_response = JSON.stringify(response);

But my response ends up looking something like this.

"{\"Message\":\"Looks like you need to login\"}"

Any ideas on why this is happening? and how I can extract just the message by doing something like

json_response.Message perhaps?

• javascript
• jquery

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• 1 Don't stringify a string, you need to parse a string. JSON -> object = parse, object -> JSON = stringify. – Matt Burland Commented Sep 8, 2015 at 13:49
• 2 possible duplicate of Parse JSON in JavaScript? – Rayon Commented Sep 8, 2015 at 13:50
• SO answer already there: stackoverflow./a/26906538/2777098 – display name Commented Sep 8, 2015 at 13:51
• You just need to Parse the json string to Javascript Object. – Mayank Commented Sep 8, 2015 at 13:57
• possible duplicate of Safely turning a JSON string into an object – Matt Burland Commented Sep 8, 2015 at 14:22

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You need to use JSON.parse():

var str = "{\"Message\":\"Looks like you need to login\"}";
var json = JSON.parse(str);
console.log(json.Message);

You need to use parse() method of json which is very useful. So keep using that it is very light weighted.

Here is my answer :

var myString = "{\"Message\":\"Looks like you need to login\"}";
var parsedJson = JSON.parse(myString);
alert(parsedJson.Message);

Try this:

var response = { Message: "Looks like you need to login" } ;
var json_response = JSON.stringify( response ) ;