Axios returns a string instead of JSON (vue.js)

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I don't understand why but axios is returning a string instead of json. Can someone explain me why ?

<template>
    <div class="app">
        <Header/>
                <h1>{{services}}</h1>
                <Services v-bind:services="services"></Services>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
    import Header from "./components/Header.vue";
    import Services from "@/components/Service";
    import axios from 'axios';

    export default {
        name: 'App',
        components: {
            Services,
            Header,
        },
        data() {
            return {
                services: [],
            }
        },
        created() {
            const instance = axios.create({
                baseURL: 'http://localhost:3000/api',
                timeout: 1000,
                headers: {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + 'mysecretcode'}
            });
            instance.get('/service')
                .then(response => {
                    this.services = response.data;
                    console.log(response.data);
                })
                .catch(e => {
                    this.errors.push(e)
                })
        },
    }

</script>

<style>
</style>

I saw online that response.data is supposed to send back only the parsed json data but on my {{services}} I get this :

{ "status": 1, "message": "Operation success", "data": [ { "_id": "5edfdaf5586d4c75036bc853", "title": "Logo rapide", "description": "testing service desc", "createdAt": "2020-06-09T18:54:45.904Z" }, { "_id": "5edfdafd586d4c75036bc854", "title": "Logo rapide", "description": "testing service desc", "createdAt": "2020-06-09T18:54:53.054Z" }, { "_id": "5edfdc8bc07c7677915275c1", "title": "Logo rapide", "description": "testing service desc", "createdAt": "2020-06-09T19:01:31.945Z" }, { "_id": "5edfdc8cc07c7677915275c2", "title": "Logo rapide", "description": "testing service desc", "createdAt": "2020-06-09T19:01:32.621Z" } ] }

instead of the parsed data. Thank you :)

3 Answers

If the response is a string then you could use:

this.services = JSON.parse(response.data).data

else if it is a JSON object already (I think it might be - but get the actual data object from your response.data):

this.services = response.data.data

Then you could use v-for and get the title with {{service.title}}

Hope it helps.

There might be an error in JSON. Axios return string when it fails to parse data into JSON. The common error in JSON is missing quotes in param names. Compare: JS: {x:"y"} JSON: {"x":"y"}

This has to do with invalid JSON from the server side. You can use an online JSON validator like https://jsonlint.com/ to validate the JSON response.

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