Is there any function to deserialize an JSON to an array in lightning component?

I have been using JSON.parse() function to deserialize JSON object, It is not working for special characters.
For example, if the JSON contains a date it being converted as 2012/04/18 instead of 2012/04/18.
As per the info in this site https://success.salesforce.com/issues_view?id=a1p30000000wkAIAAY there is a function $A.util.json.encode() to serialize. I’m searching for function to deserialize a JSON in controllerJS.

({
Search :  function(component, event, helper) {
    var searchtext  = component.find("searchtext").get("v.value");
    var model       = component.find("Model").get("v.value");
    var brand       = component.get("v.Brand");
    var subcategory = component.get("v.SubCategory");
    var category    = component.get("v.Category");
    var page    = component.get("v.pageIndex");
    var Size    = component.get("v.pageSize");

    var action = component.get("c.KnowledgeDocs");
    action.setParams({"brand" : brand,
                      "model" : model,
                      "category" : category,
                      "subcategory" : subcategory,
                      "searchText" : searchtext,
                      "pageNumber" : page,
                      "pageSize" : Size});
    action.setCallback(this,function(result){
        var responses = result.getReturnValue();
        if(component.isValid() && result.getState() === "SUCCESS"){
            var response = JSON.parse( responses );
            console.log($A.util.json.encode( response ));
            component.set('v.documents',response.documents);
            component.set('v.totalRecords',response.totalRecords);
            component.set('v.totalPages',response.totalPages);
            component.set('v.pageIndex',response.pageNumber);
        }
    });
    $A.enqueueAction(action);
} 
})

Apex Class

@AuraEnabled
public static string KnowledgeDocs(string brand, string model, string category, string subcategory, string searchText, integer pageNumber, integer pageSize){
    CCService.PublicationSearchRequest searchParams = new CCService.PublicationSearchRequest();

        searchParams.Attributes.add(
            new CCService.Attributes(CCService.FILTER_CRITERIA_BRAND, brand, eqCondition.name()));
        searchParams.Attributes.add(
            new CCService.Attributes(CCService.FILTER_CRITERIA_MODEL, model, eqCondition.name()));
        searchParams.Attributes.add(
            new CCService.Attributes(CCService.FILTER_CRITERIA_CATEGORY, category, eqCondition.name()));
        searchParams.Attributes.add(
            new CCService.Attributes(CCService.FILTER_CRITERIA_SUBCATEGORY, subcategory, eqCondition.name()));
    }

    searchParams.Attributes.add(
        new CCService.Attributes(CCService.FILTER_CRITERIA_SEARCH, null, containsCondition.name(), searchText, 'OR'));

   /*dosearch makes an rest call and returns body from the response*/

    CCService.PublicationSearchContent publications = CCService.doSearch(searchParams);
    system.debug('===>'+publications);
    return Json.serialize(publications);
}

Answers:

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Method 1

You can take a look on System.JSON class that has various methods for serializing and deserializing. (salesforce also has other kinds of json support). You might need a round trip to server though.

Method 2

By using this component I’m getting the required output.

<aura:unescapedHtml value=""/>

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