Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren

Introduction

So just a simple tip in case anyone bumps into the same issue as I had a while back. Going from Beta to RTM, some things changed in the way you retrieve values using REST in the SharePoint 2013 client object model.

Description & Solution

In the older versions of the object model, you could simply use something like this in your REST call:

$.ajax(
    {
        url: SPSearchResults.url,
        method: "GET",
        headers:
        {
                "accept": "application/json",
        },
        success: SPSearchResults.onSuccess,
        error: SPSearchResults.onError
    }
);

As you can see the "headers" is specifying "application/json".

The fix is simply to swap that statement into this:

$.ajax(
    {
        url: SPSearchResults.url,
        method: "GET",
        headers:
        {
                "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
        },
        success: SPSearchResults.onSuccess,
        error: SPSearchResults.onError
    }
);

And that’s a wrap.

Summary

I hope this can save someone a few minutes (or more) of debugging for using old example code or ripping up older projects. I’ve found that a lot of examples online, based on the beta of SharePoint 2013, are using the older version of the headers-statement which inevitably will lead to this problem. So with that said, enjoy.