jquery autocomplete doubt 1 - why data is string and result is object?

Question

$(document).ready(function() {
        $('#nome_dominio').autocomplete("testeJson2.php", {

            parse: function(data) {

            },

            formatItem: function(result) {

                return formatar(result);
            }

        }).result(function(e, result) {

                    alert ('escolheu algo');
            });
    });

Result in an object (array). data is string. They both should correspond to the same http response. Why is that? :S X.X :(

Regards, MEM

Answer 1

Probably something on your server.

To make the result into an object:

$.parseJSON(result);