JSON not serialising properly... I think?

I have a Node.js project that uses s开发者_StackOverflow中文版ocket.io. In it, I try sending an object from the client to the server like this:

socket.send(JSON.stringify({'type':'msg','message':'test'}));

When it arrives on the server, I call JSON.parse on it, and check if object.type == 'msg'. When I run the code and call console.log(object.type) it returns "msg", but object.type == 'msg' returns false. What's going on here?

EDIT:

The relevant part of the code that is failing is:

client.on('message', function(message, client){
    var envelope = JSON.parse(message);
    console.log(envelope.type);
    if(envelope.type == "msg") { console.log("yay!"); }
}

Whenever a message comes in, msg is printed, but not yay!.

Did you already try using non-literals as keys in your JSON message? I'm building a small chat server to explore socket.io, using JSON messages. Here's my relevant code:

Client-side:

var jsonMsg = {
      action: 'SEND',
      body: msg,
      name: name.val()
    };
socket.send(JSON.stringify(jsonMsg));

Please note that both msg and name.val() are string values, grabbed from the corresponding input fields.

Server-side:

client.on('message', function(m, c) {
  // parse message
  var msg = json.parse(m);

  switch (msg.action) {
    case 'SEND':
      // send message to channel
      var broadCast = {
        posted: date.toReadableDate(new Date(), 'timestamp'),
        message: msg.body,
        name: msg.name
      };
      socket.broadcast(json.stringify(broadCast));
      break;
  }
});

Note: toReadableDate is a custom prototype method.

The message is recieved correctly on the server- and on the client-side as broadcast.

Maybe it's a node bug? I've just tried it in 0.5.0-pre and it works fine in the limited context.

> message = JSON.stringify({'type':'msg','message':'test'})
'{"type":"msg","message":"test"}'
>     var envelope = JSON.parse(message);
>     console.log(envelope.type);
msg
>     if(envelope.type == "msg") { console.log("yay!"); }
yay!

Other options might be an encoding issue (looks like "msg" on the terminal but isn't strictly those characters in the string?)

Your message must be in the format '{"type":"msg"}'.