JSON is undefined error

[TimSx]

I've use JSON.parse() and JSON.stringify() numerous times. For some very odd reason, whenever I try to use JSON now, an error is thrown saying that JSON is undefined.

This is a toy example to showcase how strange this is:

var jstr = JSON.stringify({obj:12}); // JSON is undefined error here

var obj = JSON.parse(jstr);

alert(obj);

In AE Scripting guide, it says that it uses  ECMA-262  specification, which includes support for JSON.

Has anyone else experience this bizarreness? Is there a fix or should I just bring in my own JSON functions?

[Tomas Sinkunas · Accepted solution]

By defaul, JSON is undefined in ESTK.

If you happen to stumble upon defined JSON, that means some other script/panel is poluting global scope and injecting JSON object globally. If im not misstaken, Libraries are doing that.

If you want to work with JSON you should import it explicetly to your script. Dent rely on cases when soe other tool injects it globally.

Most of AE scripters use this library to import JSON GitHub - douglascrockford/JSON-js: JSON in JavaScript

Hope that helps.

[brianm60674866]

I don't know what any of that means from the accepted answer. I'm an animator, not a computer science guy, and I usually code in python for Maya so a lot of this is over my head.  I wrote a js script for our studio to automate a bunch of tasks in which one of the functions does this:

parsedData = JSON.parse(data)
For myself and most of our artists, we don't have a problem.  But one artist is getting the error that JSON is undefined.  I assume this is unique to his After Effects installation or some other module preventing his After Effects application from utilizing JSON.   We are all using AE 18.4.0 or later.  Both JSON.jsx and json2.js are in his Support Files directory for After Effects.
Please tell me how to fix.
Thanks.

[Tomas B. aka Tom10]

If you want to have library as an additional file along the script, copy all from this page and paste into your script. It should work.

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json2.js

[Tomas B. aka Tom10]

Sorry, if you DON'T want library as a separate file, do what I wrote above inside your own script file:)

[brianm60674866]

ok, so I've discovered that (for my own computer anyway) if I open After Effects normally, I can run the script and it executes without a problem--meaning that it doesn't throw the JSON is undefined error. 
However, if I open AE through a subprocess and run the script automatically*, it throws the error that JSON is undefined. 
I copied that entire thing into ( from https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json2.js) into my script.  This seems to have no effect.  Deleting that code block has no effect.  What am I missing?

*https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/need-to-run-a-js-script-automatically-from-...

[Fred29717504vb07]

Hello, I had the JSON undefined error as well and have embedded the json2.js file into my Premiere.jsx.  This solved my problem however I would rather link to the json2.js file instead of embedding the whole thing in my .jsx
To link files in html, I would do something like this... 

<script src="./main.js"></script>
To link files in Java or C++ I would use #import or #include

How do you link the JSON.js files in Premiere.jsx???

[Prazzle]

Can anyone help me with this? I am not working with JSON file. I am simply trying to upload a 5MB pdf to a job site (their maximum allowed is 10MB) and I am getting this message. Can anyone tell me why I am getting this message? It seems to have nothing to do with my file or the website. Thanks!