Parsing JSON with endline characters when receiving it from the server

Question

I have a JSON that looks like so:

{
    "response": {
        "event": "Other",
        "time_opened": "2014-09-09 10:09:07",
        "time_updated": "2014-09-10 09:34:55",
        "name": "blablablablablabla",
        "current_status": "blablabla

blablablablablablablablablablablabla

blablablablablablablablabla

blablablablablablablablabla

"
    }
}

I get "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token" on JSON.parse. After research I couldn't figure out how to wrangle it. Sorry if duplicate, but I'm a little lost here.

JSON doesn't allow you to have newline character, if you remove the newline characters from the "current_status" value it validates fine. My suggestion would be to change the server side code to return it without newlines. — Sean, Sep 11 '14 at 13:29
You could replace the newlines with something like \\n as detailed in this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392766/multiline-strings-in-json — Sean, Sep 11 '14 at 13:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '14 at 13:33

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The problem was resolved with appropriate encoding server side.

answered Sep 11 '14 at 13:33

Tim Zhukov-Khovanskiy

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