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#13756 closed bug (notabug)

Opened April 09, 2013 01:40PM UTC

Closed April 14, 2013 10:39PM UTC

Last modified January 31, 2014 12:28PM UTC

Empty JSON respone

Reported by: alexpts@yandex.ru Owned by: alexpts@yandex.ru
Priority: undecided Milestone: None
Component: unfiled Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

Sorry my bad English.

If ajax respone is empty, then

//541 string - parseJSON()

return window.JSON.parse( data )

// SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data (Firefox 19.0.2)

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Change History (7)

Changed April 09, 2013 01:45PM UTC by alexpts@yandex.ru comment:1

Changed April 09, 2013 02:43PM UTC by rwaldron comment:2

owner: → alexpts@yandex.ru
status: newpending

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Changed April 14, 2013 10:39PM UTC by m_gol comment:3

resolution: → notabug
status: pendingclosed

This has nothing to do with jQuery. An empty string is not valid JSON, hence the error.

Changed November 12, 2013 11:01PM UTC by dmethvin comment:4

#14533 is a duplicate of this ticket.

Changed November 12, 2013 11:06PM UTC by aaron.l.france@gmail.com comment:5

Whilst it's not valid JSON, it's incredibly dense to leave this as it is. It should just fall back to not parsing the response instead of failing completely.

BTW- if you want to leave in the utterly daft behaviour then at *least* add in some way of informing the user of your silly decisions via some exception or whatever.

Changed November 12, 2013 11:08PM UTC by dmethvin comment:6

Open the browser's console. There will be a message there.

Changed January 31, 2014 12:28PM UTC by daniel.halan@itq.com comment:7

Would be nice if JSON.parse("") didn't throw an exception,

as when using $.ajax() together with ASP.NET MVC, it is common practice to use 'void' as return type on simple POSTs, which returns an empty string.