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rd. ln.
7,851 PointsIn the catch block user call console.error to print out the error's message property. WHAT????
What is this even talking about?
var message = "This fucking sucks. He should find a new career other than teaching."
try {
var jsonString = 'This is not a JSON String';
var jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);
} catch (error) {
console.error(message);
}
3 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,867 Pointswhat it is talking about is var jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString); this statement can go wrong, you need to catch the exception and print its message property out with console.error.
Here's one way to do it.
var jsonString = 'This is not a JSON String';
try {
var jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);
} catch(error) {
console.error(error.message);
};
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest TeacherThe error passed in to the catch clause is an object. A variable encapsulated by an object that can be accessed by using dot notation is known as a property.
The error object has a property called message.
Rana Dugal
9,506 Pointsconst jsonString = 'This is not a JSON String'; try { const jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString); } catch(error) { console.error(error.message); };