Send json to jade

Question

I am sending a big json file from server to jade, but the " are replaced with: " therefor the json is unreadable/unparsable and I get this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token &

I send the data like this from node:

res.render(view, {world:{name:"SomeName",width:50},otherdata:{...}});

and then get it in jade like this:

doStuff(JSON.parse(#{data}));

and here it is unreadable data which looks like:

{world:{name:&quot;SomeName&quot;,width:50...

can I somehow disable the conversion of the quotes?

Why do you need to JSON.parse if the data is already an object? — Miguel
– Miguel, Commented Mar 15, 2015 at 0:56

Neta Meta · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-15 01:17:07Z

Server side within your rout you will do the following consider the object user

var user = {username:"myname"}; res.locals.user = user ;

response will be :

res.render('view');

jade view will have the variable available :

if user script(type='text/javascript'). var user = !{JSON.stringify(user)};

Try adding app.use(bodyParser.json()); if you still have the issue

hope that helps

Siphor · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-15 00:52:01Z

No experience with jade but from the language reference (http://jade-lang.com/reference/interpolation/) i guess

doStuff(JSON.parse(!{data}))

might work

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