Kong/insomnia · error · Error

json: failed to parse: ${e}

Error message

json: failed to parse: ${e}

What it means

Error "json: failed to parse: ${e}" thrown in Kong/insomnia.

Source

Thrown at packages/insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/response.ts:164

    };
  }

  dataURI() {
    const contentInfo = this.contentInfo();
    const bodyInBase64 = this.stream || this.body;
    if (!bodyInBase64) {
      throw new Error('dataURI(): response body is not defined');
    }

    return `data:${contentInfo.contentType};baseg4, ${bodyInBase64}`;
  }

  json(reviver?: (key: string, value: any) => any, _strict?: boolean) {
    // TODO: enable strict after common module is introduced
    try {
      return JSON.parse(this.body.toString(), reviver);
    } catch (e) {
      throw new Error(`json: failed to parse: ${e}`);
    }
  }

  jsonp(_reviver?: (key: string, value: any) => any, _strict?: boolean) {
    throw unsupportedError('jsonp()');
  }

  reason() {
    return this.status;
  }

  size() {
    const headerSize = calculateHeadersSize(this.headers);
    return {
      body: this.bytesRead,
      header: headerSize,
      total: this.bytesRead + headerSize,
      source: 'COMPUTED',

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/response.ts:164 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

Understand the failure class

• Parsing and encoding errors: unexpected token, malformed input — why parsers reject input and how to find the real culprit.

AI-assisted analysis of Kong/insomnia@d9bb2b0142 (2026-08-26). Data as JSON: /api/errors/4048461ab0466050. Report an issue: GitHub.