How to parse JSON from jsx to js

Question

Hi There,
I'm trying to parse a JSON Object from a .jsx file to .js. I've searched the forum but i cant seem to find the answer. When i use a plane String it does work, but i dont know how to include the json2.jsx in the .js file. And is there a way to debug the .js code?. I'm using Visual Studio Code with extendscript debugger so i can debug the .jsx but not the .js
 
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
My code looks like this.JS File
 
// how do i include json2.jsx here? (it doesnt seem to work)
function init() 
{
  var layerSettings = document.getElementById("layerSettings");
  
  csInterface.evalScript("getJson()", function (result)
  {
    var r = JSON.parse(result)
    layerSettings.innerHTML = r.name;
  });
}
 
JSX File
 
//@include json2.jsx

function getJson()
{
   var ar  = {name: "John", age: 31, city: "New York"};
   var stringAr = JSON.stringify(ar);
   return stringAr;
}

NH5EAB · Accepted Answer

I did manage to alert the result within photoshop. This is what i get.

Ok so i did get it to work, but i dont know if it is correct. I embedded the entire json2.js in the JSX following a stackoverflow comment. Now it works.

As you can imagine, EvalScript probably won't work because any type of include depends on an actual file location and a script inside EvalScript has no physical location. I had a similar problem when using evalJSXFile and obviously it didn't work neither as ExtendScript would not fetch that included script. You can work around by embedding the entire json2.js into your script, if you have to use JSON in your script. – toyssamuraiMay 13 at 19:23

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56375138/need-to-json-stringify-an-object-in-extendscript

Manan Joshi · Answer

In fact, I checked and it seems that you don't need to include anything for JSON parsing on the js end. It seems to support it natively

So using the following with any includes is working for me

var obj = JSON.parse('{ "name":"John", "age":30, "city":"New York"}');
console.log(obj)

For js debugging see the following

-Manan

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