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Getting Cannot read property 'length' of undefined when parsing JSON array which has data in it in EJS template?

Here is my code to render view and pass data.

var x = '{"products":[{"id":"1"},{"id":"2"},{"id":"3"}]}';
res.render('home', {test:x});


Here is my code to loop and show data

<ul>
<% for(var i=0; i<test.products.length; i++) { %>
<li>
<%= test.products[i].id %>
</li>
<% } %>
</ul>


I keep getting Cannot read property 'length' of undefined error. What exactly am I doing wrong here?

2 Answers
2

It seems like that view isn't getting test object, try to console.log it's value and see what it's showing. Moreover, You can loop through array of objects like this as well:

var products=test.products;
for (var key in products) {
if (p.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
console.log(key + " -> " + p[key]);
}
}


the object to which x refers is a string. you need to parse this as a JSON object using JSON.parse(x)

JSON.parse(x)

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