How to read these strange data retrieved from WP REst Api?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hi,
I’m looking for a suggestion on how to manage these data that I get, in a Ionic4 app, from a Wordpress site, calling the WP Rest API.

The web services return a JSON like this:

{
"id": 230,
"title": "Tuscany rentals",
"address_transport": [
"a:3:{s:7:\"address\";s:65:\"Piazzale Michelangelo, Piazzale Michelangelo, Firenze, FI, Italia\";s:8:\"latitude\";s:10:\"43.7629314\";s:9:\"longitude\";s:18:\"11.265056100000038\";}"
]
},

The problem is the field “address_transport” that has a strange format, that I don’t know how to read.

I’ve understood that that the address_transport item is an array of three elements (a:3), the first is “address” that is log 7 characters (s:7) and its value is “Piazzale Michelangelo, Piazzale Michelangelo, Firenze, FI, Italia” that has 65 characters (s:65).

Do you have any suggestions on how to read data like these and what is the name of this strange notation?

Thank you very much

Claudio

2

I’ve found that this is an array serialized with the PHP function serialize.
There is also an unserialize function.
There is also a Javascript library to unserialize these arrays.
I’ve solved, unserializing the string on the server.