Proper way to catch exception from JSON.parse

i post something into an iframe then read back the contents of the iframe with json parse...so sometimes it's not a json string

Try this:

if(response) {
    try {
        a = JSON.parse(response);
    } catch(e) {
        alert(e); // error in the above string (in this case, yes)!
    }
}

We can check error & 404 statusCode, and use try {} catch (err) {}.

You can try this :

const req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (req.status == 404) {
        console.log("404");
        return false;
    }

    if (!(req.readyState == 4 && req.status == 200))
        return false;

    const json = (function(raw) {
        try {
            return JSON.parse(raw);
        } catch (err) {
            return false;
        }
    })(req.responseText);

    if (!json)
        return false;

    document.body.innerHTML = "Your city : " + json.city + "<br>Your isp : " + json.org;
};
req.open("GET", "https://ipapi.co/json/", true);
req.send();

Read more :

  • Catch a 404 error for XHR

Tags:

Javascript

Xmlhttprequest

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