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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials If you fancy a less verbose data format than CSV or XML, then JSON could be for you. This tutorial will teach you about using JSON with JavaScript for effective local storage or Internet transfers.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286034
Length 120 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Implementing JSONP


We are using the same URL as before to fetch the data, but we have added the jsonp parameter and are setting it to getRedditData; it is important to note that the feed is now padded into our callback getRedditData. Now let's replace the URL property in our earlier script to create a new script that will fetch us the JSON feed.

A few properties such as url and dataType have been modified and a few new properties such as contentType and jsonpCallback have been added. We have already discussed the change in the url property, so let us look at the other properties.

Earlier, the dataType property was set to json as the incoming feed was of type json, but now the JSON feed is being padded into a callback, and it has to be switched so that the browser expects a callback rather than JSON itself. The new properties that have been added are contentType and jsonpCallback; the property contentType specifies the type of content being sent to the web server. jsonpCallback takes the name...

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