Using a JSON response

Question

I get the following response from the server after doing an ajax request:

{"error":false,"success":true}

My ajax code:

$.ajax({
    url: '/update',
    type: 'post',
    data: $(this).serialize(),
    success: function(response) {
        alert(response)
    },
    error: function() {
        alert('An error occured, form not submitted.');
    }
});

instead of alerting the whole response I want to alert the value of "success", which in this case would be true. How to do this?

Answer 1

Like so:

alert(response.success);

Answer 2

   $.ajax({
        url: '/update',
        type: 'post',
        dataType: 'json', 
        data: $(this).serialize(),
        success: function(response) {

                        alert(response.success)

        },
        error: function() {
            alert('An error occured, form not submitted.');
        }
    });