How to get external JSON data into a Javascript variable
How do I retrieve "livingroom" from a text file into a javascript string variable that can be displayed with alert? Using my example below, instead of having the value hardcoded, I want to retrieve the data from the .json file, which will be deployed with a different value to each computer in my home network. (I am trying VERY hard to avoid using ActiveX with Windows Script Host techniques to get Wscript.Network.ComputerNa
I have looked at numerous articles on JSON, JQuery and RPC and have only gotten myself confused. This seems like such a simple thing to do...
file: computerid.json
file: foobar.html
file: foobar.js
Thanks in advance.
I have looked at numerous articles on JSON, JQuery and RPC and have only gotten myself confused. This seems like such a simple thing to do...
file: computerid.json
{"computer": {
"id": "livingroom"
}}file: foobar.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>JSON Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="foobar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="jquery-1.7.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body onload="showComputerName();">
</body>
</html>file: foobar.js
function showComputerName () {
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{"id":"livingroom"}');
alert(obj.name);
}Thanks in advance.
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