parse (string)

Task Purpose

The parse task is used to parse a JSON string (written in JSON format) and return a JavaScript (JS) object. If a malformed JSON string is passed, an exception is thrown. This task is very useful when dealing with JSON-formatted content.

Potential Use Case

Some systems will return an XML payload which has stringified json. The parse task will reform the string into a working JSON object so that the individual components of data within the JS object can be accessed.

Properties

Input and output properties are shown below.

Examples

In the example shown below, the text string to parse is statically set to {"firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "age": 22, "state": "California"}.

The outgoing textObject variable would be:

{
"firstName": "John",
"lastName": "Smith",
"age": 22,
"state": "California"
}