1.4.4 - jQuery.parseJSON(string_with_only_whitespaces like ' ') throws an exception

Reported by:	christiaan.vandenpoel@gmail.com	Owned by:
Priority:	undecided	Milestone:	1.5
Component:	unfiled	Version:	1.4.4
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Description

I don't know whether this is expected behavior but jQuery 1.4.4 raises an exception when you try jQuery.parseJSON with a string which contains onyl whitespaces.

This occurs for example when you do a Ajax request (dataType: 'json') and the server returns just a string with one or more whitespaces.

I'm using Chrome 7.0.517.44 on ubuntu/linux so it uses the native parser (window.JSON.parse() )

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Changed November 15, 2010 01:04PM UTC by christiaan.vandenpoel@gmail.com comment:1

added jsFiddle example http://jsfiddle.net/SYQvW/4/

Changed November 15, 2010 01:55PM UTC by jitter comment:2

Well just whitespace isn't a valid JSON response AFAIK

Changed November 15, 2010 02:03PM UTC by dmethvin comment:3

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	new → closed

http://json.org/ indicates the minimal valid json is '{}'.

Changed November 15, 2010 02:29PM UTC by anonymous comment:4

quite right, I'm taking this to the rails team, as this came up when using rails with ajax and json requests.

Thx for your help.

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