AngularJS SyntaxError: Unexpected token s

Question

I have a function called login, when the User pushes the button, the code below will be executed.

So i try to see if the user exists and to get his data in an JSON Object but that doesn't work, i get following Message:

  SyntaxError: Unexpected token s
    at Object.parse (native)

the URL is exactly like i want it to be.

$scope.login = function() {
    var request = $http({
        method : "GET",
        url : "/REST/user" + "/" + $scope.email + "/" + "password" + "/" + $scope.password,
        headers : {
            'Content-Type' : "application/json"
        }
        });

    request.success(function(response) {
        location.href = "../views/test.html"
    });
    request.error(function(response) {
        growl.addErrorMessage("doesn't work", {
            ttl : 4000
        });
    });
}

Output by Browser

{
"id": "9be1804a-e366-11e4-9d4b-82ea0d805d53",
"email": "[email protected]",
"facebook_id": null,
"firstname": "test",
"lastname": "blabla",
"password": null,
"gender": null,
"is_active": "0",
"birthday": null
}

You might want to include the output of the REST url if you visit it from the browser — Jasper
– Jasper, Commented May 1, 2015 at 16:09
You can use the $http.get("/REST/user" + "/" + $scope.email + "/" + "password" + "/" + $scope.password) syntax to simplify your request. — jake
– jake, Commented May 1, 2015 at 16:11

New Dev · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-03 05:43:43Z

2

This error is due to JSON.parse throwing an error when it encounters an object with key that doesn't start with quotes ".

For example:

{ abc: 123 }

would throw "Unexpected token a".

$http, by default, treats any data in response with "Content-Type": "application/json" or anything that starts with { or [ as JSON, and invokes JSON.parse.

Take a look at the response in the Network tab of the developer console to see what may have triggered it.

answered May 3, 2015 at 5:43

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David Duman Over a year ago

same thing happened to me when the api I called throw error message, the http expects a valid json in return.

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