Ruby on Rails JSON.parse "unexpected token" error

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I am trying to parse JSON data in my Rails 4 application with JSON.parse. I keep getting this error:

757: unexpected token at '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message><RequestId>BB0CDD4F68DBE9C0</RequestId><HostId>SwLqpcx7wpspbYzXONm1XGRG46dGHxnDroplppsxqtU4v/iVwEGOvpRWpBNR+LMPduTldva/5Nk=</HostId></Error>'

Looks like response isn't in the json format. Did you look at error message? — Roman Kiselenko, Sep 02 '17 at 10:25
Possible duplicate of [Ruby on Rails JSON.parse unexpected token error](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5130822/ruby-on-rails-json-parse-unexpected-token-error) — halfer, Sep 02 '17 at 11:11
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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '17 at 10:31

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Looks like error response is not returned as JSON. You could do something like:

def reviews
  JSON.parse(reviews_json)['Reviews']
rescue JSON::ParserError
  []
end

answered Sep 02 '17 at 10:31

Jan Klimo

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