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Ken
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Kyle Banerjee
[kyle.baner...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 9:45 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] including data from static JSON file in Javascript
If all you wan
Ken, you can make a synchronous request with XMLHttpRequest if you need to
(though it's not commonly done):
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'data.json', false); // false implies synchronous
request.responseType="json";
request.send(null);
But do consider the option of mak
If all you want to do is load external json as a string, you can do it
using syntax almost identical to what you suggest. Just change your
data.json file so the content is
var data = ' [include your json here, be sure to escape things properly]';
Then just load this file before your external scri
Hi folks,
I'm working on a javascript project that currently has a bunch of JSON data
defined inside the script; I'd like to move the data to a file outside the JS
file so it can be updated without touching the script, but I'm running up
against a few challenges externalizing the data.
The sta