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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

Roudy Antenor
Roudy Antenor
4,124 Points
Posted by Roudy Antenor
Roudy Antenor
4,124 Points

All OF My workers are playing hookie?!

Hello all, I have followed the video to the T - and i do not know why all of my workers appear to be in the red - yet the JSON file clearly has the inoffice properties of false and true for the workers - can anyone spot the error in my code?

let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if (xhr.readyState === 4){
    let employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
    let statusHTML = '<ul class="bulleted">';
    for(let i=0 ; i < employees.length ; i++) {
      if(employees[1].inoffice === true){
        statusHTML += '<li class="in">';
      }else {
        statusHTML += '<li class="out">';
      }
      statusHTML += employees[i].name;
      statusHTML += '</li>'; 
    }
    statusHTML += '</ul>'; 
    document.getElementById('employeeList').innerHTML = statusHTML;
  }
};
xhr.open('GET', 'data/employees.json');
xhr.send();

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

In your if statement you are checking employees[1], so the employee's status won't be their status, but the status of the second employee in the list. You want to check it using the loop index, not a constant index.

Roudy Antenor
Roudy Antenor
4,124 Points
Roudy Antenor
Roudy Antenor
4,124 Points

Awww man - Thank you for the review!! - it should've been employees[i] -- thanks for pointing out the error- cheers!