JSON object undefined in Internet Explorer 8

Question

Currently I'm writing a JavaScript file and have the following line:

var res = "JSON=" + JSON.stringify(result);

result is being set just above this line. The issue I'm having is that IE8 (IE8 only, that is) is reporting to me that JSON is undefined somehow. I'm not sure what to make of this since, as I understood it, IE8 is a browser that implemented JSON support. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

Answer 1

put following code in your js file ;

var JSON = JSON || {};

// implement JSON.stringify serialization
JSON.stringify = JSON.stringify || function (obj) {

var t = typeof (obj);
if (t != "object" || obj === null) {

    // simple data type
    if (t == "string") obj = '"'+obj+'"';
    return String(obj);

}
else {

    // recurse array or object
    var n, v, json = [], arr = (obj && obj.constructor == Array);

    for (n in obj) {
        v = obj[n]; t = typeof(v);

        if (t == "string") v = '"'+v+'"';
        else if (t == "object" && v !== null) v = JSON.stringify(v);

        json.push((arr ? "" : '"' + n + '":') + String(v));
    }

    return (arr ? "[" : "{") + String(json) + (arr ? "]" : "}");
}
};

// implement JSON.parse de-serialization
JSON.parse = JSON.parse || function (str) {
if (str === "") str = '""';
eval("var p=" + str + ";");
return p;
 };

Answer 2

Using jQuery.parseJSON solved this for me, in case you are already using JQuery.