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On Wed, May 27, 2015, at 18:23, Karthik Sharma wrote:
> The JSON structure is valid as shown by http://jsonlint.com/
>    I want to be able to access the different fields inside `data` such as
>    `severity`, `subject` and also fields inside `tdetails` such as `CPUs`
>    and `Product`. How do I do this?

your data object is a string, it doesn't have anything inside it. if you
want it to be a json object you'll need to actually use the json parser
on it.