Uncaught Reference Error: Jsonbody is not defined at Request.request - json

Question

I am trying to show details of an api call in my electron app. this is the api and sample json data:
[
{
ID: 596,
title: "Carolyn Wood",
content: "<p>Turning away bad clients can leave you feeling oddly guilty. They’re sort of like alcoholic or meth head cousins who force you, by their own bad behavior into denying them things you wouldn’t deny other people. You’re left feeling not quite yourself. </p> ",
link: "https://quotesondesign.com/carolyn-wood/",
custom_meta: {
Source: "Twitter"
}
}
]
I am using request module to fetch data and JSON.parse(body) to get the object like below:
let request = require('request');
request("http://quotesondesign.com/wp-json/posts?filter[orderby]=rand&filter[posts_per_page]=1&_jsonp=mycallback",
(err, response, body)=>{
let jsonBody = JSON.parse(body);
let randQuote = jsonBody[0]["content"];
document.getElementById("quote").innerHTML = randQuote;
});
In console, I get this error:
Uncaught ReferenceError: jsonBody is not defined
at Request.request [as _callback] (D:\ElectronDev\ElectronBasics\quote-widget\index.js:8
pointing on this line JSON.parse(body). How do I resolve this?

Answer 1

The response from the endpoint has some extra characters at the start of the response and that's the reason the JSON.parse can not parse it into object and jsonBody is undefined.
Here is the fix to your specific response for this. Change your line of code to this.
let jsonBody = JSON.parse(body.substring("/**/mycallback(".length, body.length - 1));
Hope this helps.