"no implicit conversion of Array into String" when trying to parse JSON data

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I’m using Rails 4.2.3. I’m trying to parse JSON data, so I have

content = ["{\"sEcho\":3,\"timestamp\":1464705752942,\"iTotalRecords\":1242,\"iTotalDisplayRecords\":1242,\"aaData\":[{\"externalId\":\"4279\"}]}"]
my_object_times_array = JSON.parse(content)

Sadly, the second line gives the error

no implicit conversion of Array into String

The JSON is well-formed (at least as far as I can tell) so I’m not sure what is causing the error above and how to fix it. I would prefer not to change the JSON.

Uhm codepen is Javascript, !NOT RUBY! Are you trying to solve the problem with JS or RUBY? — mahatmanich
– mahatmanich, Commented May 31, 2016 at 15:01

mahatmanich · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-31 15:06:05Z

3

content is an array, but JSON.parse expects a JSON String.

Example of usage from the documentation:

require 'json'

my_hash = JSON.parse('{"hello": "goodbye"}')
puts my_hash["hello"] => "goodbye"

Check the documentation here

So you could do following:

content = "{\"sEcho\":3,\"timestamp\":1464705752942,\"iTotalRecords\":1242,\"iTotalDisplayRecords\":1242,\"aaData\":[{\"externalId\":\"4279\"}]}"
my_object_times_array = JSON.parse(content)

or

content = ["{\"sEcho\":3,\"timestamp\":1464705752942,\"iTotalRecords\":1242,\"iTotalDisplayRecords\":1242,\"aaData\":[{\"externalId\":\"4279\"}]}"]
my_object_times_array = JSON.parse(content[0])

edited May 31, 2016 at 15:06

answered May 31, 2016 at 14:58

mahatmanich

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