Making workable JSON file with Angularjs1 - angularjs

Question

I have file that looks like this when I navigate to my local host server
URL:
http://localhost:9000/read/lol.json
And output looks like this:
"{\n \"firstName\" : \"Vladimir\"\n}\n"
Now, what I want is to read this file, so I made service in angular:
.service('messageService', ['$resource', function($resource){
this.getMessage = function(firstName) {
var gmList = $resource("read/lol.json");
return gmList.get({
firstName : firstName
});
};
}]);
and my controller.js
.controller('messageService', function(messageService){
this.firstName = messageService.firstName;
this.messageResult = messageService.getMessage(this.firstName);
});
Finally, my html file
<div data-ng-controller="messageService as mService">
<p>This is new controller: </p>
<div >
<ul data-ng-repeat="w in mService.messageResult">
<li>{{w.firstName}}</li>
</ul>
</div>
EDIT! This is how I got my output when i go to /read/lol.json
Its in java, to be precise, Play Framework.
public Result getFileContent(String filename) throws IOException {
String publicFolder = _appEnvironment.rootPath().getAbsolutePath().concat(folder);
String result = "";
FileReader in = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
File dataFile = new File(publicFolder + filename);
try {
in = new FileReader(dataFile);
br = new BufferedReader(in);
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
result = result.concat(line).concat("\n");
}
} finally {
if (in != null) {
in.close();
}
if (br != null) {
br.close();
}
}
return ok(Json.toJson(result));
}
Thats it. I feel something needs to be done to ignore those \n and .
When I load my page, I get empty list (dots and nothing in that list, just dots).
However, when I look in console, my lol.json file has status 200. I GET that file but cant get anything from it (object).
What is the problem?

Answer 1

Make use of JSON.parse. The code is below:
var data=JSON.parse("{\n \"firstName\" : \"Vladimir\"\n}\n"
);
console.log(data.firstName);
It would convert the string to javascript object format. And to get value of firstname, just log data.firstname.