JSON Parsing Error - json

Question

I got problem. I have this JSON automatically generated by Open Flash Chart php library. The problem is, OFC report JSON Parse Error [Syntax Error] while test result using http://www.jsonlint.com/ report that my JSON is fine. But, w3c parser report error too:(
Any help?
Here's the JSON:
{
"title": "Followers Trend",
"elements": [
{
"type": "area_hollow",
"fill-alpha": 0.35,
"values": [
],
"colour": "#5B56B6",
"text": "Followers",
"font-size": 12
}
],
"x_axis": {
"colour": "#A2ACBA",
"grid-colour": "#D7E4A3",
"offset": false,
"steps": 4,
"labels": {
"steps": 2,
"rotate": "vertical",
"colour": "#A2ACBA",
"labels": [
]
}
},
"x_legend": {
"text": "Week Trend (2009-08-17 - 2009-08-24)",
"style": "{font-size: 20px; color: #778877}"
},
"y_axis": {
"min": 0,
"max": 150,
"steps": 30
}
}

Answer 1

A few things I learned while playing with JSON is:
If you have validate the JSON on various JSON validation services and the result is GOOD. But, when you failed to eval it, try to wrap your JSON using ( and ) => ({jsondata})
var json = eval( "(" + jsonString + ")" );
NEVER build the JSON yourself. It's a gate to failure. Always use official or popular JSON library (depending on your language). For example:
On PHP: use json_encode()
On Java Android: use org.json.JSONObject
A list of all other available library to play with JSON is listed in JSON official page.
To display and format JSON data, you can use JSONViewer.

Answer 2

I think the w3c parser is having issues, I couldn't even get it to parse this:
{
"title" : "Followers Trend"
}
It gave me this error:
Validation errors:
lexer couldn't parse at "{
"title" : "Followers Trend"
}"

Answer 3

http://json.bloople.net helps you visualise the code to find and correct errors.

Answer 4

try this code, JSON.parse() method is not able to handle string which is in a
single quote as a value in the right-hand side. also if you want to handle the
UTF-8 character code, then it will do.
parseJSON = function() {
var data = {};
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function() {
try {
data = JSON.parse(reader.result.replace(/'/g, "\""));
console.log(data)
} catch (ex) {
console.log('error' + ex);
}
};
reader.readAsText(fileSelector_test[0].files[0], 'utf-8');
}