HttpService:JSONDecode() not parsing JSON but returning the raw JSON string that was passed into the function

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I am having a problem that just came out of nowhere, HttpsService:JSONDecode is not parsing the passed raw JSON string I passed.

Here is my code:

local chars = playerData:FindFirstChild(plr.Name).Characters -- Fetch stringValue containing raw json of some of the Player's data
local parsedData = http:JSONDecode(chars.Value) -- try parse the json

What was returned:

local returned = "{\"chars\":[\"Rare Brick\",\"Uncommon Brick\"]}" -- Not a lua table

What is expected:

local returned = {
    chars = {
       "Rare Brick",
       "Uncommon Brick"
    }
}

I do not know why this is happening and if you need any more information please reply and i’ll give you the information.

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Can you provide the raw input please. It might be the entire thing is enclosed in quotemarks and is therefore a string according to JSON schema.

So basically show us what print(chars.Value) outputs.

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output
String

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absolute
Absolute value

6

I fixed the problem by scrapping the JSON storage idea all together and instead made my own string data saving method that has strings that have split points so I could load it as an array and make it a string to save.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help